Comrie, Dunira Street, Old Parish Church
Church (19th Century) (1805)
Site Name Comrie, Dunira Street, Old Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century) (1805)
Alternative Name(s) Comrie Youth Centre Flambeaux Club; St Kessac; The White Church
Canmore ID 146820
Site Number NN72SE 75
NGR NN 77286 21954
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/146820
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Comrie (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NMRS REFERENCE.
Architect: Stewart of Perth 1804.
PLANS:
NMRS - I G Lindsay Coll, W/102.
W Schomberg Scott Collection Acc no 1997/39
2 prints
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Records Office.
Following architects tried for the job: Mr Reid, Edinburgh, Geo. Macfarlane, Comrie.
Heritors agree to the building of a new Church. John Stewart, an architect from Perth, asked to produce plans and estimates. His estimate amounts to #1,980 to include steeple, #50 to be deducted from this as the value of the old church. Estimate accepted and work to begin as soon as possible.
1803
Manse. Agreement that repairs and additions be carried out. GD51/16/20/1-3
Rebuilding of the Church. Letter from Archibald Robertson agreeing to the decision of the Heritors concerning the rebuilding of the Church. GD51/16/18
1803
Scottish Records Office.
Building the new Parish Church.
Minutes of the meetings of the Heritors.
Architect. John Stewart. [Working 1798-1813].
His plans and estimates are accepted and it is agreed that the work should begin as soon as possible.
1803 GD 51/16/20/1-3
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Photographic Survey (November 1960)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in November 1960.
Photographic Survey (September 1964)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record/Ministry of Work in September 1964.
Watching Brief (2 November 1999 - 12 November 1999)
During the period 2nd-12th November 1999, SUAT Ltd carried out a small excavation and a watching brief (SUAT site code CM01) inside the Comrie Community Centre, formerly the White Church, at Dunira Street, Comrie, Perth and Kinross (NGR NN772 219). The archaeological work was commissioned by James Denholm Partnership, Comrie, on behalf of their clients the Comrie Community Centre Committee, in response to the recommendations of a desk-based archaeological assessment produced by SUAT Ltd in September 1999. The watching brief revealed some structural evidence for the White Church and recovered disarticulated human bone from pre-White Church burial ground deposits. Four articulated burials and artefactual evidence in the form of shroud pins, coffin fittings and coins were recovered from the excavation. A fragment of transom probably from an earlier church was found reused in a dwarf wall for the White Church floor. All the human remains were later reinterred in the graveyard on the south side of the Church.
SUAT Ltd. 2001
