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Meathie, Church And Burial-ground
Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Site Name Meathie, Church And Burial-ground
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Meathie-lour, Old Parish Church; Meathie Church; Meathie Church And Graveyard; Mains Of Easter Meathie
Canmore ID 33564
Site Number NO44NE 10
NGR NO 46536 46241
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/33564
- Council Angus
- Parish Inverarity
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO44NE 10 46536 46241.
(NO 4654 4624) Meathie Church (NR) (remains of)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1973)
The site of the church of the former parish of Meathie-Lour which was suppressed in 1667, whereupon the church, dedicated in 1243, was allowed to fall into ruin.
A J Warden 1880-5.
The now overgrown foundations of this church reveal a rectangular structure measuring 21.0m x 7.0m externally, the walls of which are 1.0m thick and 0.3m - 0.5m high, except for a fragment of the N wall at the E end which has been rebuilt to a height of 2.0m and on which is an inscription which states that this was the burial place of the Bowers of Kingoldrum in the 18th century, and that the foundations of the church were exposed by excavation in 1926. An ornamental sacrament house, discovered in 1926, has been built into this modern wall.
There is a doorway in the N wall, 5.0m from the W wall; it is 1.0m wide and shows the bases of finely moulded jambs. Immediately opposite this, in the S wall, is another doorway; and a further break of 1.0m in the S wall, 6.0m from the E end may represent yet another doorway. Fragments of carved stones and old grave-slabs lie amid the thick undergrowth which covers the site. A low dry-stone wall still surrounds the graveyard but no erect slabs exist within it.
Visited by OS (J L D) 12 August 1958.
Scheduled as Meathie, church and graveyard.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 29 October 2003.
Field Visit (March 1978)
Meathie NO 465 462 NO44NE 10
On the N slope of Fothringham Hill above Eater Meathie, there are the remains of the old parish church of Meathie-Lour, which was allowed to fall to ruin following the amalgamation of the parish with Inverarity. There is a 13th-century gravestone on the site, but the remains of the church are probably of late medieval date.
RCAHMS 1978, visited March 1978
(Warden 1880-85, iii, 400-1)
Field Visit (1993)
