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Leith Hall Policies, Kennethmont, St Alkmund's Parish Church
Date June 2006
Event ID 967279
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/967279
Low stone foundation of St Alkmund's Parish Church visible through grass. Largely robbed and stone reused for several small memorial enclosures around 19th/20th century gravestones. The Gordon vault (NJ52NW 123) may preserve part of the SE corner and E wall to c 1.6m height.
A church on this site was granted to the Abbey of Lindores in 1191-5
by David Earl of Huntingdon (Cowan 1967). The church is shown on the 1797 estate map as a roofed building. It is depicted as a narrow rectangular building with a small square addition about halfway along the N side. The 1791-99 Statistical Survey (vol 13, 73) describes the church as ‘the church is old and has been frequently repaired’. The new church (NJ52NW 46) was built just to the S of estate and nearer to the village in 1812 .
(LEI06 031)
Information from NTS (SCS) November 2013
