St. Mary's Old Church, Kilmuir - Dunvegan, Scotland
N 57° 26.247 W 006° 34.560
29V E 645502 N 6368677
St. Mary's Old Church (Kilmuir), now in ruins, was constructed in 1694 and is located in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Waymark Code: WMMDBC
Location: Northern Scotland, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/04/2014
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"Dated 1694. Ruined random rubble, simple stone dressings. Plain rectangular, roofless church orientated east/west; entrance in SW rectangular window, east gable. Balustraded burial enclosure with moulded lugged architraves to entrance dated 1735 at west gable. Dyked burial ground containing early carved grave slab and obelisk to Lord Thomas Fraser, died 1699.
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Former parish church, Dunvegan. Dated on lintel, north elevation. Serves as burial ground for Macleods of Dunvegan Castle. Early carved tombstone is Scheduled Ancient Monument No 9249. Scheduled Area 8.12.2000."
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"St. Mary's, Kilmuir, 1694 Consolidated rubble oblong of old Duirinish parish church in stone-walled burial enclosure, reminiscent of Skye's other post-Reformation parish churches of Strath and Sleat. Eighteenth century aisle and mural memorials; balustraded burial enclosure with architraved doorway of 1735 attached to west gable. Although St. Clement's Church, Rodel was the principal resting place for the Macleod chiefs, some are buried here, as are generations of MacCrimmons, hereditary pipers to the Macleods. Predominant in the graveyard is an ashlar obelisk memorial, early 18th century, with weathered inscription to 'Lord Thomas Frazer' (father of Simon Fraser, 11 th Lord Lovat, who was executed on Towerhill in 1747) who died at Dunvegan while visiting his brotherin- law in 1699. In 1888 this 'lay in pieces on the ground', the kirk ruinous, overgrown with weeds and filled with junk, according to J. and E. Pennell, the roof having caved in about 20 years earlier. Some carved late-medieval gravestones and 18th century tablestones."
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