Archaeology Notes

Event ID 792787

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 103.00 28337 74483.

NT27SE 103.01 NT 28332 74468 Chapel (St Triduana's Aisle)

NT27SE 103.02 NT 2835 7447 Jougs

NT27SE 103.03 NT 283 744 Gatehouse; Watching Brief

NT27SE 103.04 NT 28314 74452 Churchyard

(NT 2833 7447) Restalrig Church (NR) formerly

Collegiate Kirk of the Holy Trinity and St Mary (NR)

OS 1:1056, (1853).

On being rebuilt in 1487, the old parish church of Restalrig, which is on record in the 12th century, was erected by James III into a collegiate establishment known as the Deanery of Restalrig. In 1560, the General Assembly ordered that it should be destroyed, and thereafter its ruins served as a quarry. Some parts of the choir walls, however, were not destroyed, and these were restored in 1836 to make the church of a quod sacra parish. As it stands now, the building is featureless, with few traces of its 15th century origin.

RCAHMS 1951; D E Easson 1957.

This church, which is still in use, has been much restored. Externally, it is of little architectural value.

Visited by OS (SFS) 3 December 1975.

NT 2832 7448 A watching brief was kept during the removal of tarmac and other modern materials outside the W end of the parish church before new flagstones were laid over the area. Immediately below the tarmac were the remains of two mortar-bonded rubble walls, which pre-dated the extant 19th-century building and probably also its 15th-century predecessor.

Several disarticulated human bones, uncovered to the immediate S of the walls, are thought to have resulted from the disturbance of two burials by a recently cut drainage trench.

Sponsors: Minister and Kirk Session of St Margaret's Parish Church, Restalrig.

J Terry 2002