Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731596

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY17SE 11 19221 74504

(NY 1921 7449) St Fechan's Church (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1957)

For adjacent Johnstone church (NY 1925 7454), see NY17SE 67.

This church was situated on the S side of Ecclefechan. The parish was united with Hoddom in 1609, and the church later demolished. The cemetery remained in the 19th century.

G Chalmers 1890; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (W W Duncan)

The parishes of Hoddam, Ecclefechan and Luce on Annan were united in 1609.

H Scott 1915-61.

The name 'Ecclefechan' is probably to be compared with Llanfechan in Montgomeryshire; the second part, which is supposed to be the name of St Fechin of Fore (H Scott 1917) may, however, be the mutated form of the Welsh adjective 'bechan', as in Llan-fair-fechan, 'Little St Mary's Church'. In this case the meaning would be 'little church'.

W J Watson 1926.

No trace of this church can be seen in the graveyard.

Visited by OS (RD) 23 October 1967

Ecclefechan (Glasgow, Annandale). A parsonage in Bagimond, the church remained unappropriated in the 16th century, then lying within the patronage of Carruthers of Holmains.

I B Cowan 1967.