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Brydekirk Mains, St Bryde's Tower

Lairds House (Medieval)

Site Name Brydekirk Mains, St Bryde's Tower

Classification Lairds House (Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Brydekirk Tower

Canmore ID 66723

Site Number NY17SE 9

NGR NY 18698 71113

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Annan
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NY17SE 9 18696 71113

(NY 186 711) St Bryde's Tower (NR) (Remains of)

OS 6" map (1957)

A fragment, 15ft. long, 3 ft. broad and 25 ft. high, of the N wall of the tower mentioned in 1590 survives, surrounded by out buildings on Brydekirk Mains Farm.

RCAHMS 1920

The remains of the tower at NY 1869 7111 are as described by RCAHMS.

Visited by OS (RD) 23 October 1967

No change to previous field report.

Visited by OS (IA) 22 February 1973

Activities

Field Visit (28 May 1912)

St. Bryde's Tower, Brydekirk Mains.

Of this tower, which lay ½ a mile north of Brydekirk village, only a fragment of the north wall survives, surrounded by the out-buildings of Brydekirk Mains farm. The wall is 15 feet long, 3 feet broad, and terminates at a height of 25 feet from the ground in a fragmentary corbel course.

"Habye Carlile of Brydekirk " is among the landlords ordered in 1590 to find surety under the Act of 1587 (Reg. Privy Council, iv. p. 790).

RCAHMS 1920, visited 28 May 1912.

OS 6" map, Dumf., 2nd ed, (1900).

Field Visit (24 August 1993)

NY 1869 7111 NY17SE 9

At the N end of the E range of Brydekirk Mains steading (NY17SE 70), there is what is probably the gable wall of a 17th-century laird's house (previously interpreted as the remains of Brydekirk Tower). The extant portion has a slight external batter and rises to what is probably a crow-stepped gable. At the apex there is a corbel, probably for a chimney. The Internal face of the wall has been remodelled, but at first floor level, on the W, there is a semi-circular recess, probably for a newel-stair. Latterly, the recess has been re-used as the embrasure for a fireplace, the E jamb of which is in situ and wrought with a chamfered arris. Viewed from the exterior, a flue is apparent rising to the apex of the gable. A doorway in the adjoining range at first floor level has a jamb which is also wrought with a chamfered arris.

Visited by RCAHMS (IMS), 24 August 1993.

Listed as tower.

RCAHMS 1997.

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