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Kilchrist, Old Church
Cemetery (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Mausoleum (19th Century)
Site Name Kilchrist, Old Church
Classification Cemetery (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Mausoleum (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gilchrist, Mausoleum; 'the Old Church Of Kilchrist'; Gilchrist Farm
Canmore ID 12672
Site Number NH54NW 14
NGR NH 53889 49214
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/12672
- Council Highland
- Parish Urray (Ross And Cromarty)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH54NW 14 53889 49214
(NH 5389 4921) Mausoleum formerly a Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
See also NH54NW 99.
The church of the former parish of Kilchrist or Tarradale, united with Urray in 1574. It was dedicated to Our Lord and known as Cill Chriosd, and is traditionally said to have been burnt in 1603. The church was re-roofed c. 1870 and is now the mausoleum of the MacKenzies of Ord.
H Scott 1928; D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931; A MacDonald and A MacDonald 1900.
'The Old Church of Kilchrist', roofed, in reasonable condition, and still used as a mausoleum. The burial ground is still in use. Photo.
Visited by OS (A A) 24 June 1975.
Mausoleum
formerly Old Church of KIlchrist
Graveyard [NAT]
OS (GIS) Mastermap, April 2010.
Field Visit (January 1978)
Kilchrist, Old Parish Church NH 539 492 NH54NW 14
The former parish church of Kilchrist or Tarradale stands immediately W of Gilchrist farmsteading. The roof and the E window date from the 19th century, when the church. Was extensively restored; it is now a mausoleum.
RCAHMS 1979, visited January 1978
OPS 1851-5, ii, 522-4; Cowan 1967, 98
Field Visit (2022)
NH 25831 61521-NH 66227 71249 Survey and recording undertaken of gravestones in 2021/2022. Visits were made to the following churchyards or burial grounds:
NH 25815 61624 Achnahalt (Upper; Canmore ID: 288571)
NH 25831 61521 Achnahalt (Lower)
NH 39685 61381 Garve
NH 49741 43928 Kiltarlity (Old; Canmore ID: 12381)
NH 53889 49214 Kilchrist (Canmore ID: 12672)
NH 31649 62677 Lochluichart (Canmore ID 267078)
NH 66227 71249 Nonakiln (Canmore ID 13747)
NH 30875 55235 Porin (Canmore ID 308517)
Recording Sheets to be lodged with the Highland Archives Inverness, with results to be published by the Highland Family History Society. Photos to be lodged with NRHE.
Stuart Farrell
