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Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 31

Gravestone (Early Medieval)

Site Name Glasgow, Govan Old Parish Church, Govan 31

Classification Gravestone (Early Medieval)

Canmore ID 353210

Site Number NS56NE 17.32

NGR NS 5534 6591

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Glasgow, City Of
  • Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District City Of Glasgow
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Govan 31 (St Constantine), Glasgow, Renfrewshire, recumbent gravestone

Measurements: H 1.08m, W 0.63m, D 0.28m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NS c 5537 6588

Present location: in the nave of Govan Old Parish Church.

Evidence for discovery: found in the churchyard in the nineteenth century, re-used as a gravestone, and subsequently damaged at both ends.

Present condition: broken at both ends and heavily weathered. Allen placed the slab in his angle-knob group, but the ends of the slab are now missing.

Description

Within a wide plain raised border it is possible to make out the shaft of a cross, but the interlace in the background described by Allen is no longer visible.

Date: tenth to eleventh century.

References: ECMS pt 3, 466, no 31; Cramp 1994.

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017

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