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Architecture Notes
Event ID 759584
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/759584
NS93SE 16.00 97816 30937
NS93SE 16.01 97818 30951 Churchyard
(NS 9782 3093) Church (NAT)
on Site of St Ninian's Church (NR)
OS 6" map, Lanarkshire, 2nd ed., (1913).
Lamington church was built in 1721, renovated in 1828 and again about 1880. Its N wall incorporates the doorway of the original church, built in the 12th century and dedicated to St Ninian. An iron staple for the jougs is fixed to the E side of this doorway.
G Hay 1957; New Statistical Account (NSA, C Hope) 1845; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896.
This church is in use for public worship. The doorway referred to above is a typical example of Norman work.
Visited by OS (WW) 23 June 1955.
No change to the previous information.
Visited by OS (JRL) 12 February 1979.
