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Benvie Church

Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Font (Period Unknown), Sundial (17th Century) (1643)

Site Name Benvie Church

Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval), Font (Period Unknown), Sundial (17th Century) (1643)

Alternative Name(s) Benvie, Old Kirkyard

Canmore ID 32051

Site Number NO33SW 6

NGR NO 32837 31452

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/32051

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Angus
  • Parish Liff And Benvie (Angus)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District City Of Dundee
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO33SW 6.00 3282 3145.

NO33SW 6.01 NO 3283 3145 Pictish Cross-Slab

Cross-Slab removed to Dundee Museum in October 1991

(NO 3282 3145) Benvie Church (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1926)

About half the W gable of Benvie Church still stands; the foundations show that it had measured about 54' x 24'. It belonged to St Andrews, and was dedicated to an unknown saint in 1243.

In the churchyard is a Class III cross-slab, an old font, a sundial dated 1643, and a number of 17th century grave-slabs.

A Jervise 1861; A J Warden 1880-5; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903;

M E Boyle 1938.

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Field Visit (18 April 1958)

Only a fragment of the W wall, 6.0m long, 2.0m high and 1.2m thick, remains of this church. There are no traces of other foundations within this small elevated graveyard.

The cross-slab, which is at NO 3283 3145, is as illustrated by Allen

and Anderson (1903).

The font is built into the N end of the remaining wall; the sundial is in the outside wall by the gate, and there are a number of 17th century grave-slabs.

Visited by OS (J L D) 18 April 1958.

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