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Convinth, Old Parish Church
Parish Church (Medieval)
Site Name Convinth, Old Parish Church
Classification Parish Church (Medieval)
Canmore ID 12597
Site Number NH53NW 2
NGR NH 5120 3746
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12597
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH53NW 2.00 5120 3746
(NH 5120 3746) Chapel [NR] (In Ruins)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906).
NH53NW 2.01 Centred NH 51205 37440 Cemetery; Sculptured stones; Cup-markings
See also NH53NW 6.
This was once the parish church of Convinth (W Jolly 1882) 2), and was dedicated to St. Lawrence. Convinth was a parish in 1221. The churchyard contains some early stones, including one bearing a horse and rider, suggestive of the Celtic period. There are also two cup-marked stones, one with two cups, the other with four.
Glen-convinth church is traditionally said to have been founded by a companion of St Erchard.(W MacKay 1893)
(St. Erchard was a disciple of St. Ternan. St. Ternan lived in the 5th century). (W D Simpson 1935)
T Wallace 1911
St Lawrence's Church - possibly of 16/17th century date, with no trace of earlier structure - is built of random masonry, roughly coursed with rubble infilling and measures approx 22.0m by 6.8m within a wall 1.0m thick. The SW gable and the NW wall stand to a maximum height of c.2.5 m, and part of the SE wall survives as a foundation, but the NE gable is destroyed. Graves occupy the interior. The burial ground is still in use.
The stone bearing the horse and rider, and the two cup-marked stones, could not be located and there is no local knowledge of them.
Visited by OS (R D) 9 Feburary 1970.
