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Field Visit
Date 26 August 1993
Event ID 927546
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/927546
NY17NW 5 1270 7567
Old St Mungo's parish church is situated on a knoll, in otherwise low-lying ground, close to the River Annan. All that visibly survives of the church is a portion of its S wall, its E gable and a fragment of the adjoining N wall.
The church appears to have been extensively remodelled about 1741, at which date square-headed windows were inserted together with a doorway in the S wall (date on lintel in Roman characters); since then the fabric has been patched and consolidated more than once, in part accompanying the adoption of the remaining part of the church for use as the lair of the Maxwells of Castlemilk. The 18th-century work is characterised by dressings wrought on the arris with a narrow chamfer. A cyma-moulded skewput at the SE angle may also be of this period; a string-course of triangular section in the E gable wall appears to predate the remodelling and may be medieval. Although now reduced in size, a surviving terrace on the W side of the lair suggests that the overall dimensions of the church were of the order of 20.9m by 7.35m overall.
Within the burial-ground there are two 17th-century slabs and a number of 18th-century gravestones. One of the 17th-century slabs, placed upright beside the Jameson burial-aisle on the SSW side of the burial-ground, bears in low relief the outline of an outstretched hand clasping a sword (straight quillons and guard). However, the slab has been reused and this carving may have formed part of a much larger figure, perhaps medieval in date. In respect to the 18th-century gravestones, one is particularly noteworthy. It is situated immediately in front of the E gable of the church and bears the effigies of husband, wife and son (commemorating John Bell of Nethertoun, died 1737, and kin) together with an Adam and Eve depiction, and the inscription 'Here sianos Adam & Eve, tree & all, which by his Fall we were made sinners'.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, PC), 26 August 1993.
St Mungo. Listed as church, burial-ground and medieval graveslab. RCAHMS 1997.
