Kirk O' The Muir, United Presbyterian Church
Church (18th Century)
Site Name Kirk O' The Muir, United Presbyterian Church
Classification Church (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kinclaven, United Presbyterian Church
Canmore ID 135824
Site Number NO13NW 60
NGR NO 11221 37044
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/135824
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kinclaven
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO13NW 60 11221 37044
For associated manse (NO 1114 3693), see NO13NW 10.
U.P. Church [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1867.
'U.P. Church. A plain oblong building surmounted by a belfry.'
Name Book, 1864.
Impressive Secession church, long disused. Rectangular, harled, whitewashed, stone margins. Two large square headed sash windows on S. front, with window and door each side: blind N. wall. Low skylit gallery on c.i. columns on 3 sides. Dismantled pulpit. "B1744R 1830".
Floor lifted wood panelling removed. Plaster falling from ceiling (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Reverend James Fisher, who led his parishioners to their new church, was the son-in-law of Secession founder Ebenezer Erskine. (Nick Haynes)
Photographic Survey (September 1963)
Photographic survey of the exterior and interior of Kirk O' The Muir Secession Church, Perthshire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in September 1963.
