Scheduled Monument
Old Dailly ChurchSM8138
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
- 03/03/1999
- Type
- Ecclesiastical: burial avile/vault; church, Secular: monument
- Local Authority
- South Ayrshire
- Parish
- Dailly
- NGR
- NX 22538 99336
- Coordinates
- 222538, 599336
Description
The monument comprises the remains of Old Dailly Parish Church and the surrounding graveyard: the latter contains several Covenanters' graves.
The building is of 17th-century date, although a built-up round-arched doorway in the N wall of the modern mausoleum which lies within the E end of the church indicates the existence of a pre-Reformation structure on the site. A church, dedicated to St Michael, is on record as being granted by the first Earl of Carrick to the Cluniac house at Paisley in 1236 and may be the precursor to the existing building. The church is rubble-built save for the outer face of the E gable which is constructed of ashlar sandstone. Both gable walls stand to full height and each is topped by a belfry: that on the E gable is the more ornamental of the two. The stone burial vault of the Dalrymple Hamilton family of Bargany occupies the E end of the ruined church whilst the single-storey, slate-roofed crypt of the Cathcarts of Killochan adjoins the church at the NE. The church was abandoned in 1696 in favour of a new church at Dailly. A monument in the churchyard, erected in 1835, marks the site of the graves of several Covenanters who were shot in the vicinity in 1685.
The area to be scheduled is irregular on plan with maximum dimensions of 65m NW-SE by 60m NE-SW to include the church and graveyard. The boundary of the scheduled area is defined by the surrounding graveyard wall which is also included in this scheduling. All burial lairs with existing burial rights are excluded.
References
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