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Laurencekirk Parish Church And Graveyard

Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Laurencekirk Parish Church And Graveyard

Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Conveth Parish Church; Laurencekirk Parish Kirk; East Church

Canmore ID 36525

Site Number NO77SW 16

NGR NO 71811 71625

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/36525

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Laurencekirk
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Kincardine And Deeside
  • Former County Kincardineshire

Archaeology Notes

NO77SW 16 71811 71625

(NO 7180 7162) Ch (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1971)

The parish church of Laurencekirk (formerly known as Conveth) comes on record in the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214); it was dedicated to St Laurence. A church, erected in 1626, was demolished in 1804 to make way for the present building. At that time, stones, apparently older than the building, were found in the walls. They included stones or a stone on which was carved the figure of a man lying on a gridiron, supposedly representing the martyrdom of St Laurence. Some of the stones were inserted in the walls of the new church (NSA 1845).

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; W R Fraser 1880; RCAHMS 1982.

The present church, still in use, was built in 1804 and restored in 1895. No further information.

Visited by OS (R L) 12 December 1967.

Architecture Notes

ARCHITECT: Matthews & Mackenzie of reconstruction 1895

Activities

Field Visit (October 1981)

Laurencekirk, Parish Church and Burial-ground NO 718 716 NO77SW 16

The parish church of Laurencekirk (formerly known as Conveth) comes on record in the reign of William the Lion (1165-1214). The church demolished in 1804, to make way for the present building, was erected in 1626, but when it was being taken down 'there were found in different parts of the wall, stones apparently of even an older date than the building'.

RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981

(NSA, xi, Kincardine, 128; Fraser 1880, 211-19; Cowan 1967, 35)

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