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  SM3810_Legal Doc

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Summary

Description

The monument comprises the churchyard of the present parish church of Glenorchy which contains a number of medieval graveslabs and was the site of a medieval and a seventeenth-century church. The monument was first scheduled in 1975 but the boundaries of the scheduling are unclear. This rescheduling clarifies the boundary and makes specific exclusions.

The present church is the third to occupy the island site between the River Orchy and the Orchy Bheag. A medieval church on the site was replaced with a new church by Sir Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy in 1615. This building had become unsafe by 1807 and the present church was erected in 1810.

The churchyard contains a collection of medieval graveslabs including ten described by the RCAHMS (1975, 133-4) and attributed to the Loch Awe school, dating to the 14th to 15th century. An eleventh slab and the side-slab of a tomb-chest, dating to 1500-1560 are also described.

The area to be scheduled is an irregular shape with maximum dimensions of 50m N-S by 50m E-W to include the churchyard within the boundary walls, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. The 19th-century church, the burial layers in active use, the boundary walls and the top 30cm of the paths are excluded from the scheduling.

Statement of National Importance

The graveyard is of national importance because of its collection of medieval graveslabs and for its potential to provide archaeological information relating to the medieval and seventeenth-century churches which previously occupied the site.

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