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Latitude: 56.4041 / 56°24'14"N
Longitude: -4.971 / 4°58'15"W
OS Eastings: 216766
OS Northings: 727505
OS Grid: NN167275
Mapcode National: GBR 03.0K72
Mapcode Global: WH2K2.M91B
Entry Name: Glenorchy Parish Church, churchyard and tombstones
Scheduled Date: 24 December 1975
Last Amended: 23 December 2004
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3810
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Location: Glenorchy and Inishail
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Traditional County: Argyllshire
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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NN12NE 8.
References:
Brydall R 1897, 'Notice of a group of carved grave-slabs at Dalmally, Argyleshire', PROC SOC ANTIQ SCOT, 31.
OPS 1854, ORIGINES PAROCHIALES SCOTIAE: THE ANTIQUITIES ECCLESIASTICAL AND TERRITORIAL OF THE PARISHES OF SCOTLAND, 2, 1, Edinburgh, 134.
RCAHMS 1975, ARGYLL: AN INVENTORY OF THE ANCIENT MONUMENTS: VOLUME 2: LORN, Edinburgh, HMSO, 132-4, No. 246.
Ritchie J N G and Harman M 1985, EXPLORING SCOTLAND'S HERITAGE: ARGYLL AND THE WESTERN ISLES, Exploring Scotland's Heritage Series, Edinburgh, 99-100, No. 38.
Watson W J 1926, THE HISTORY OF THE CELTIC PLACE-NAMES OF SCOTLAND: BEING THE RHIND LECTURES ON ARCHAEOLOGY (EXPANDED) DELIVERED IN 1916, Edinburgh, 256-7.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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