Archaeology Notes

Event ID 738130

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ70NW 24 7395 0532

For (present) Echt Parish Church (NJ 7396 0570), see NJ70NW 20.

Granted to Scone by Thomas, son of Malcolm de Lunden (1214x25), the church was confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1225. The parsonage thereafter remained with the abbey, while the cure was a vicarage perpetual.

I B Cowan 1967.

The site of the former Parish Church of Echt lies in the old kirkyard to the S of the manse (NJ70NW 25) at Kirkton of Echt.

Information from RCAHMS (IFr), September 1992.

Air photographs: AAS/00/08/CT/13-21.

NMRS, MS/712/101.

Nothing is now visible of the old parish church of Echt, which stood in the burial-ground at South Kirkton, on a gentle SW-facing slope overlooking the broad valley of the Gormack Burn. The interior of the subrectangular burial-ground, which is enclosed by a drystone wall, is raised between 1m and 1.5m above the surrounding ground level, and contains many headstones of 19th-century date. The position of the church is not clear, but there is a concentration of older stones, including a number of small granite headstones, towards the S side and SE corner. An architectural fragment has been built into the outer face of the wall at the SW corner, 24m S of the gate and 0.5m above the ground; it is a granite block, measuring 0.36m high by 0.34m broad, now used as a socket stone for a stanchion, and it bears a narrow edge chamfer.

Visited by RCAHMS (IFr, AW), 21 November 1996.