Archaeology Notes

Event ID 765791

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT75NE 9 78685 57067

(NT 78685 57067) Preston Church (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, (1957).

See also NT75NE 31.

Old Parish Church, Preston: There was probably a church here in the 12th century, although the present ruin shows evidence of extensive rebuilding and alteration in the medieval period and later. The church went out of use in 1718, when the parish of Preston was united with Bunkle.

The structure consists of a nave and chancel of equal width, the whole internal dimensions being approximately 70ft by 14ft 6ins, with the chancel 18ft 6ins long. On the N side of the building there are slight traces of a 'lateral adjunct which may have been a sacristy' (J Robson 1896).

RCAHMS 1980, visited 1979; I B Cowan 1967; RCAHMS 1915; Fasti Eccles Scot, H Scott et al ed. 1917; J Ferguson 1892; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897.

The gables and short stretches of the S wall are all that remain of the original Preston Church. The N wall has been rebuilt within recent times and the whole building shows signs of restoration.

Visited by OS (RD), 12 August 1970.

Scheduled as 'Preston Church, church and burial ground... the former parish church of Preston and the burial ground. '

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.