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Latitude: 57.6639 / 57°39'50"N
Longitude: -4.1709 / 4°10'15"W
OS Eastings: 270587
OS Northings: 865856
OS Grid: NH705658
Mapcode National: GBR J82G.N5K
Mapcode Global: WH4FJ.XM1M
Entry Name: St Michael's Church,Kirkton
Scheduled Date: 9 October 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5419
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Ecclesiastical: church; Secular: mausoleum
Location: Resolis
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Black Isle
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument consists of the remains of the former parish church of Kirkmichael. It was superseded in 1662 when the parish of Resolis was created.
The rectangular, rubble-coursed structure is situated in a walled burial ground close to the Cromarty Firth. The central portion of the building was rebuilt and re-roofed in the 19th century and used as a mausoleum for the Munros of Poyntzfield. The church measures 16.9m E-W by 7.2m N-S overall with walls approximately 0.7m thick. The roofed portion measures 7.1m square and contains a round-headed entrance in the W gable; the chancel measures 5.8m by 5.4m and incorporates a double-light late gothic window in the gable, twin lancets in the S wall and a square-headed entrance; extending 4m W from the NW angle of the mausoleum is a portion of poorly bonded, rubble masonry, 1m high and 1m wide. The interior side contains the remains of a moulded arch, this fragment is probably part of the original N wall of the church and may have been part of an arch-tomb of 16th-century date. A low section of rubble wall aligned with the w wall of the mausoleum may mark the W end of an earlier building. It is 7.2m N-S, 13.5 from the SW angle of the mausoleum and is 1.2m thick at its widest point.
The area to be scheduled is rectangular, measuring a maximum of 34.4m E-W by 11.2m N-S, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because, although it has been much altered by later work, it retains features consistent with a church of late Medieval origin and as such is of architectural value as an ecclesiastical building. In addition it provides evidence and has the potential to provide further evidence, through excavation, for parish organisation, settlement evolution, burial practices and material culture during the period of its construction and use.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NH76NW 1.
Canmore
https://canmore.org.uk/site/14486/
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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