Field Visit
Date October 1980
Event ID 923109
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Gretna Old Church, Parish Church and Burial-ground NY 319 680 NY36NW 31
The present listed church, which in part may date from the 17th century, probably stands on or close to the site of its medieval predecessor, which is first mentioned in about 1170. A fragment of late-medieval window-moulding and what may be two similar fragments are built into the W wall. In 1609 the parishes of Gretna and Redkirk (NY36NW 5) were united.
RCAHMS 1981, visited October 1980
(NSA, iv, Dumfries, 270; Claverhouse 1905, 12-13;Scott 1915-61, ii, 246; RCAHMS 1920, p. 93, Nos. 264-5; Cowan 1967, 78; The Annandale Observer, 22 October 1971)