Bendochy Parish Church
Burial Ground (Post Medieval) - (20th Century), Church (17th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Bendochy Parish Church
Classification Burial Ground (Post Medieval) - (20th Century), Church (17th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Coupar Angus, Old Parish Church And War Memorial Plaque
Canmore ID 30917
Site Number NO24SW 1
NGR NO 21837 41462
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/30917
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Bendochy
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO24SW 1.00 21835 41465
NO24SW 1.01 21833 41448 Burial-ground
NO24SW 1.02 21810 41456 War Memorial Lych Gate
NO24SW 1.03 21842 41547 Manse
NO24SW 1.03 21842 41490 Architectural Fragments; Bell-cote
(NO 2184 4145) Church (NAT).
OS 6" map, Perthshire, 2nd ed. (1901)
The church of Bendochy was the parish church of Coupar-Angus before the Dissolution.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1797
It is not known when it was built, but the walls are considered to be very old and it contains a monumental stone dated 1587.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845
NMRS REFERENCE
Architect: Alexander Johnston 1885 (large additions) - restoration.
Field Visit (6 February 1969)
This church, in use, has a comparatively modern appearance. No further information.
Visited by OS (EGC) 6 February 1969.
Photographic Record (1986)
Recording of gravestones inside the church and in the churchyard of Bendochy Parish Church, Perthshire, by Mrs Betty Willsher 1986.
Field Visit (15 April 1987)
The site of the medieval parish church is probably indicated by a terrace (about 20m by 6.6m) on the S side of the present church, which is essentially a 17th-century building restored by Alexander Johnston of Dundee in about 1885 (see photograph and drawing in vestry of building before and after restoration). The fabric of the N wall retains its 17th-century character and the church (minus the 19th-century addition to the E end) measures 17.3m from E to W by 6.3m transversely within walls measuring 0.9m in thickness.
Within the burial-ground there is a fine collection of 17th- and 18th-century gravestones and a number of carved and moulded stones (some lie at the W end of the church, there is one in the S revetment wall of the burial-ground and others are incorporated in the perimeter wall on the W). Other carved stones are incorporated in the manse rockery (NO24SW 1.03), including a roll-moulded voussoir and a marriage-lintel (reconstituted in a doorway forming a garden feature) bearing the date 1710 and the initials IMIO; the 17th century bellcote from the church has been re-erected on the manse lawn. An ornamental sacrament house bearing the initials VT, probably William Turnbull, Abbot of Coupar (1507-1523/4), is preserved within the church (on the S side of the altar) together with a number of late-medieval graveslabs (at the W end of the church), including those of Nicholas Campbell of Keithick (died 1587), Leonard Leslie, Commendator of Coupar (1565-1605), and John Cumming of Couttie (died 1606, a monumental graveslab bearing the effigy of a knight).
Bendochy church is on record in 1221 and prior to the Reformation was the parish church of Coupar Angus.
Visited by RCAHMS (IMS) 15 April 1987.
I B Cowan 1967.
