Kirkliston, Old Auldcathie Kirk
Church (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kirkliston, Old Auldcathie Kirk
Classification Church (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Auldcathie Church
Canmore ID 49172
Site Number NT07NE 6
NGR NT 07864 76028
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/49172
- Council West Lothian
- Parish Kirkliston (West Lothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County West Lothian
NT07NE 6 07864 76028.
(NT 0786 7602) Auldcathie Church (NR) (remains of)
OS 6" map (1967)
This ruined church, standing in a field, has been a simple oblong single-chambered pre-Reformation structure, built partly from the remains of an earlier building, for in the walls, incorporated as packing, are fragments of what may be late 14th century detail. The church measures 29 1/2' E-W by 15 1/4' N-S within c.2 1/2' thick walls. Both gables are fairly entire, but the side walls are less complete, standing about 7' 6" at the highest part. The entrance is in the S wall, and there has been another door opposite. The building is surrounded by an old graveyard.
In origin a private chapel, allowed certain rights by the Priory of St Andrews, to whom the mother church of Linlithgow pertained from the early 12th century, this church had attained parochial status before the 15th century (I B Cowan 1967).
The parish of Auldcathie was annexed to Dalmeny at the Reformation, forming a detached portion of that parish in 1856.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1926; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897; Name Book 1856; J Ferguson 1905
The remains of this church are as described.
Visited by OS (JLD) 30 December 1952 and (JP) 25 March 1974
Photographed by the RCAHMS in 1979.
