Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732031

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY28SE 3.00 257 801.

(NY 257 801) Graveyard (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

NY28SE 3.01 25760 80190 Church; Burial-ground; Moated Site (possible)

NY28SE 3.02 257 801 Architectural Fragments; Medieval Grave-slabs; Font (possible)

For (site of) Carruthers village (NY 2502 8070), see NY28SE 2. For Pennersaughs Church (NY 2073 7439) and (present) Middlebie Parish Church (NY 2142 7615), see NY27SW 1 and NY27NW 13, respectively.

The parish of Carruthers was joined by Parliament to Middlebie and Pennersaughs (NY27SW 1), 24th June 1609.

H Scott 1915-61.

The parish of Carruthers was annexed to Middlebie in 1609. The church, still standing at the middle of the 17th century (G Chalmers 1890) has been demolished. Set in the churchyard wall, in the lowest course on the right of the gate, is an incised slab, while a richly carved slab forms the gate-post on the left of the entrance. In the SW corner of the churchyard is a font-like basin in the form of a scalloped capital suggestive of Norman design.

RCAHMS 1920.

Carruthers (Glasgow, Annandale). An independent parsonage in Bagimond, the church remained unappropriated, its parsonage being granted to Adam Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell in 1511.

I B Cowan 1967.

There are no indications of the church in the graveyard. The slabs and font-like basin are still in the positions given by RCAHMS but no date could be given for either. The graveyard is still used occassionally.

Visited by OS (RD), 19 June 1970.