Standing Building Recording

Date 2012

Event ID 992260

Category Recording

Type Standing Building Recording

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/992260

NJ 1864 4287 Knockando Parish Church suffered a severe fire in 1990 and as a result was deemed unsafe. It was demolished and in 1993 rebuilt on the same footprint. There is no record of excavations prior to the rebuilding, although the church sat on an old site. At least three earlier churches had been on the site, dating from1757 to 1906. In that year a round tower was added to the SW and this was repeated in the new building. An old watch house in the graveyard has been transformed into another modern feature. It has been redesigned as a chapel, which is open all year. A number of unusual features can be seen in the graveyard, Victorian gravestones and other carved stones.

The interior is entirely modern, light and airy, with tall windows and a ridge light along the length of the church. The communion table sits on a curved raised platform, with the organ in the SE corner and the wooden font, with an unusual pottery bowl, is at the S. Survey of Places of Worship in Scotland.

Archive: Scottish Church Heritage Research

Funder: Historic Scotland

Edwina Proudfoot and Jonathan Dowling, Scottish Church Heritage Research (SCHR) 2012 (DES)

2012