Field Visit
Date 30 July 1993
Event ID 923241
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/923241
NY38NE 2 NY 3521 8791
All that is visible of the old parish church of Staplegordon is a grass-grown rectangular platform (28.1m from W to E by 7.5m transversely) close to the centre of the burial-ground. Latterly, the E end of the platform seems to have been adopted as the burial-place of the Maxwells of Broomholm. Masonry footings are visible at the W end of the platform and can be traced for up to 3m along the N wall. Stone footings immediately to the S of the table tomb to Mathew (died 1792) and Blanche Little, may be the remains of a burial enclosure. On the S side of the burial-ground, there are several fine 18th-century grave-slabs, that to Janet Murray (died 1726) being particularly noteworthy). Incorporated into the inner face of the S wall of the burial-ground (to the W of the entrance) there is a stone bearing what may be an Early Christian cross.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, PC), 30 July 1993.
Listed as church, burial-ground and Early Christian cross-slab.
RCAHMS 1997
