MHG3807 - Farnaway Church, Kirkton
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Type and Period (1)
- CHURCH (Medieval to 21st Century - 1058 AD to 2100 AD)
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NH64NW 8 6055 4520.
(NH 6055 4520) Church (GT) (Ruin){NAT}
OS 6"map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1906)
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'Inverness District West Monumental Inscriptions', pre 1855
Monumental inscription survey completed by Alastair G Beattie & Margaret H Beattie . The survey may not include inscription information after 1855 and each inscription transcribed does not give the full details that appear on the stones, abbreviations used. Some ommissions and inacuracies may be encountered. First published 1993, reprinted 1994.
J Aitken : 20/12/02
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Farnua & Wardlaw (NH 54) were united into one parish of Kirkhill in 1618. The church of Farnua stood at Kirkton, Bunchrew; where are still the remains of the churchyard with several old stones.
ISSFC 1885, 1893, 1898; T Wallace 1911.
At Kirkton, near Bunchrew, are the remains of the church and churchyard of Farnaway or Fearnaie being now represented only by an enclosure about 20 yards square - of which the north wall is part of the old church; the church once measured 20 yards long by 18 feet wide. The graveyard was once four or five times larger and many skeletons have been discovered in the field north of the road (NH64NW 13) for cup-marked stones in graveyard wall)
W Jolly 1882.
The probable surviving remains of this church is a short stretch of rubble wall 7.2m long and 1.0m thick (as opposed to the graveyard walls thickness of 0.4m). It is featureless, and is 2.0m high above the graveyard's present level, but 3.0m high externally. The graveyard wall is not old, and a datestone, bearing the date 1811, in the east jamb of the southern entrance, may well be the date of its erection. The earliest grave-slab found amid undergrowth, was dated 1742.
Contrary to Jolly (W Jolly 1882), the existing fragment of church wall is on the east side of the graveyard - not the north - and therefore is probably the east gable of the church.
Visited by OS (J L D) 28 March 1962.
Sources/Archives (10)
- --- SHG1317 Text/Publication/Article: Jolly, W. 1882. On cup-marked stones in the neighbourhood of Inverness; with an appendix on cup-marked stones in the Western Islands. Proc Soc Antiq Scot Volume 16. 300-401. 375.
- --- SHG1627 Text/Publication/Article: ISSFC. 1885. 'The Bunchrew district {excursion to}', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 1 1875-80, p.79-82. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 79-82. 82.
- --- SHG2160 Text/Publication/Volume: Edited by Alastair G Beattie & Margaret H Beattie. 1994. Inverness District West Monumental Inscriptions, pre 1855. 2nd.
- --- SHG2673 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of North-east Inverness, Inverness District, Highland Region. . 24, No. 183.
- --- SHG2773 Text/Publication/Volume: Scott, H et al (eds.). 1915-61. Fasti ecclesiae Scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the Reformation. Rev.. vi, 471-2.
- --- SHG3603 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
- --- SHG3604 Image/Photograph(s)/Aerial Photograph: B/W Negative. .
- --- SHG367 Text/Publication/Volume: Cowan, I B. 1967. The parishes of medieval Scotland. 206-7.
- --- SHG777 Text/Publication/Article: ISSFC. 1898. 'Excursion to the Aird and Moniack', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 4 1888-95, p.106-7. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 106-7. 106.
- --- SHG778 Text/Publication/Article: ISSFC. 1893. 'Excursion to the Aird', Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club Vol. 3 1883-8, p.111-23. Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club. 111-23. 114.
Map
Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 6054 4520 (80m by 80m) (2 map features) |
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| Map sheet | NH64NW |
| Civil Parish | KIRKHILL |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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External Links (2)
- http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB7816 (Online designation description (Historic Environment Scotland))
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/13488 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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