Kilmun, Collegiate Church Of St Mun
Collegiate Church (15th Century)
Site Name Kilmun, Collegiate Church Of St Mun
Classification Collegiate Church (15th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Collegiate Church Of St Fintan; Collegiate Church Of St Mund
Canmore ID 40768
Site Number NS18SE 1
NGR NS 16575 82070
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40768
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Dunoon And Kilmun
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS18SE 1.00 16575 82070
NS18SE 1.01 16592 82073 St Munn's Church
NS18SE 1.02 16587 82088 Douglas of Glenfinart Mausoleum
NS18SE 1.03 1658 8207 Cross Slab
NS18SE 1.04 16603 82072 Argyll Mausoleum
NS18SE 1.05 16613 82045 Churchyard
(NS 1653 8218) Collegiate Church Tower (NR) (AD 1442) (Ruin) (NAT)
OS 6" map (1946)
The church of St Columba, Kilmun, is mentioned in 1391. In 1441, it was erected into a Collegiate Church dedicated to St Fintan (H Scott 1950). Only a small portion remains, a church having been built in 1841 on the site of the old structure. In 1897, the remains consisted of a tower, about 20' square by 40' high, with fragments of the side walls and the mark of the church roof, on its E side.
D E Easson 1957; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897; G Hay 1957
NS 1657 8216. As described.
Visited by OS (JP) 2 March 1973
The remains of the Collegiate Church consist of a tower 6.5m (N-S) by 6.0m and approx 12.0m high, with fragments of the side walls and the marks of the church roof on the E side.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 10 December 1976
Site of medieval church, made collegiate in 1442. Dedicated to St Mun (? Finten Munnu), whose crosier was held by hereditary keeper in 1497.
I Fisher 2001.
NS18SE 1.00 16575 82070
NS18SE 1.01 16592 82073 St Munn's Church
NS18SE 1.02 16587 82088 Douglas of Glenfinart Mausoleum
NS18SE 1.03 1658 8207 Cross Slab
NS18SE 1.04 16603 82072 Argyll Mausoleum
NS18SE 1.05 16613 82045 Churchyard
Measured Survey (1987)
RCAHMS surveyed the Argyll mausoleum, Parish Church, Kilmun, in 1987 producing a plan at a scale of 1:100. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1992, 177).
Measured Survey (1987)
RCAHMS surveyed the Parish Church, Kilmun, in 1987 producing interior and exterior elevations, a section and plan of the window in the west wall of the tower. The plan, section and elevations were redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:50 (RCAHMS 1992, 175B).
Measured Survey (1987)
RCAHMS surveyed the Parish Church, Kilmun, in 1987 producing plans (ground, first, second and third floor) and elevations (south and west) of the tower at a scale of 1:100. The plans and elevations were redrawn in ink and published at a scale of 1:250 (RCAHMS 1992, 174B).
Field Visit (April 1989)
This church occupies the summit of a slight knoll about 10m above the NE shore of the Holy Loch, 0.7m from the present head of the loch and bounded on the E by the gorge of the Allt na Sruthlaig and on the N by the steep slope of Kilmun Hill. The existing building of 1841 occupies the site of a medieval parish church, endowed as a collegiate church in 1442 by Sir Duncan Campbell of Lochawe, and a W tower of that period, with slight remains of the adjacent walls of the nave, stands 4m to the W. The mausoleum of the Campbell Dukes of Argyll, rebuilt in 1795-6, occupies the NE re-entrant angle of the church.
RCAHMS 1992, visited April 1989
[see RCAHMS 1992 No. 80 for a detailed description of the history of the site, the present church, the Argyll mausoleum, and 67 funerary monuments of medieval and post-reformation date]
