Scheduled Monument
Kirkmaiden Church,church & churchyard 500m N of Mull of Galloway FarmSM7432
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 28/02/2000
- Supplementary Information Updated
- 08/11/2019
- Type
- Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; church
- Local Authority
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish
- Kirkmaiden
- NGR
- NX 13854 32437
- Coordinates
- 213854, 532437
Description
The monument comprises a church and burial-ground of Medieval date, dedicated to St Medana.
The monument lies in farmland close to the shore at around 30m OD. The church survives as grass-covered stone wall foundations, measuring about 15.5m E-W by 6m internally, with an entrance on the S side. It lies within a churchyard enclosed by a grass-covered tumbled stone wall, which is overlain on the W, N and S by a modern dyke. This churchyard would have accommodated the burial ground for the church. Within the churchyard there are the remains of three other rectangular structures, of unknown date and purpose. The church comes on record in 1386 and was abandoned around 1639, when a new church was built at Kirkmaiden, 5km to the NW.
The area proposed for scheduling comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related material may be expected to be found. It is irregular in shape, with maximum dimensions of 60m E-W by 60m N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The modern dykes overlying the churchyard wall are specifically excluded from the scheduling.
References
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