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Kelton, Old Parish Church
Church (18th Century)
Site Name Kelton, Old Parish Church
Classification Church (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kelton Kirk; Mid Kelton
Canmore ID 64672
Site Number NX76SE 6
NGR NX 76095 60192
NGR Description NX 76095 60192
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/64672
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kelton
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX76SE 6 76091 60188.
(NX 7608 6018) Kelton Kirk (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1946)
At Mid Kelton are the remains of an old church, long ago belonging to the Columban monks.
E M H M'Kerlie 1916
The only remains of the church is a fragment of walling 2.0 metres long 0.7 metres thick and 2.1 metres high, supporting an 18th century tombstone on its southern side. Snow up to 0.3m. deep at the time of investigation may have concealed less pronounced remains.
The structure at NX 7609 6019 is not an antiquity. It has clearly been built in more recent times, with some stones from the old church, probably as a burial enclosure originally, though now used to store gardening equipment.
Visited by OS (RDL) 13 February 1963.
All that is visible of Kelton old parish church is a fragment of its S wall which has been utilized for the mural monument of William Falconer (died 1727). The W side of the upstanding wall has the ingo and springing for what was probably an arch-pointed window, while on the N side of the wall there is the jamb of a doorway now shorn of its dressings. The extent of the church, from E to W, is indicated by an almost imperceptible depression within the burial-ground, the E end of the church probably lying directly beneath an 18th-century burial-enclosure, beyond which the ground shelves away more steeply. A round-arched arris with a pencil chamfer, may be in reuse from the earlier church; one voussoir appears to be moulded on the flat.
On the S side of the church site there are at least eleven mid to late 18th-century graveslabs; another is set upright beside the S wall of the burial-enclosure. Towards the W end of the projected line of the S wall of the church there is the gravestone of Margaret Black (died 1791) which has on the obverse the following moral guidance: 'Think young folkes on another world, to which your hasting fast, neither youth nor strength can hinder y, this day may be your last...'.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS, JRS), 6 September 1993.
NX76SE 6 76091 60188
NX76SE 6.01 7610 6020 Churchyard
NX76SE 6.02 76057 60181 Gates
