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Dron, Parish Church

Church (19th Century)

Site Name Dron, Parish Church

Classification Church (19th Century)

Canmore ID 28026

Site Number NO11NW 24

NGR NO 14109 15903

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Perth And Kinross
  • Parish Dron
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District Perth And Kinross
  • Former County Perthshire

Archaeology Notes

NO11NW 24.00 14109 15903

NO11NW 24.01 14103 15893 Churchyard

(NO 1411 1589) Church (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1957)

Architecture Notes

The Church at Dron was built in 1826 but obviously there was an earlier church here, as a grave of 1679 is mentioned as having been dug just outside the churchyard.

Name Book 1860.

The former parish church of Dron stood within its burial-ground on a terrace at the top of the steep scarp forming the N side of the gully of the Dron Burn. The present building, which dates from 1826, is disused and, although still roofed, is in a state of considerable disrepair.

The burial-ground, which is enclosed by a rubble and mortar wall, contains monuments dating from the seventeenth century onwards, including two eccentrically carved boulders on the NE side of the church. The oldest stone noted on the date of visit is a slab of 1648, on the S side of the church, which bears a mill rind, hammer and chisel. The headstone of Mr John Welwood, a Covenanting minister who died in Perth in 1679 is in the SE corner of the graveyard. Dron was granted to Arbroath as a chapel of Abernethy in the late 12th century, and had achieved parochial status by the 16th century.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 27 November 1996.

NSA 1845; I B Cowan 1967.

Site Management (1 May 1996)

Unbuttressed 3 bay retangle with 2 light windows; square battlemented west tower with pinnacles; rubble built with droved dressings and chamfered angles. (Historic Scotland)

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