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Church and graveyard, still in ecclesiastical use, built in 1848 by William Scott, architect, on the site of its predecessors. The earliest record of a church on the site is it being given to the Abbey of Arbroath by Gilchrist, Earl of Angus, in 1211-14. This church was later replaced by a church that was probably built in 1642 and repaired in 1809, which in turn was replaced by the present church, although incorporating an earlier burial vault. A fragment of a Class II cross-slab was found in 1896 when levelling the graveyard. It is sculpted with two serpentine creatures and interlaced work, and was donated to the NMS. The graveyard contains 17th, 18th and 19th century tombstones. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as a T-plan church, although the angles are partially filled, set within a graveyard. On the 2nd edition OS map, the graveyard has been extended to the south. Current maps show the graveyard has been further extended to the north. It is a simple Gothic church constructed from stugged snecked sandstone rubble with margined ashlar dressings and a grey slate roof. The windows are pointed and have hoodmoulds and label stops, with geometric tracery to the windows at the south. The east and west gables have wheel windows with a moulded architrave. The doorways have pointed arches with chamfered reveals. There are diagonal buttresses at the angles, moulded saddleback-coped skews with skewputts and cruciform finials at the north and east gables. There is a gabled porch on the west elevation, which also features an inscribed shield, a fleur-de-lys finial and a corbelled octagonal birdcage bellcote at the apex with pointed-arch openings, gablets, a pinnacled roof and a chain and bell-pull to the bell. Within the recessed bay to the north of the elevation is a heraldic panel above a door that is dated '1642', although the '4' is now missing. There is an inscription above the doorway on the east elevation. There are further heraldic shields with inscriptions on the north gable, and an inscribed date panel with '1848' at the centre of the south elevation. Inside the church there are stained glass windows at the south, east and west that are probably by C. and L. Ower, and from the 1880s. There is a curved screen in the north aisle with stained glass depicting the McGavin of Ballumbie family arms. On the east wall there is a moulded stone panel with eight family arms and names. Jougs are previously recorded as being fitted into the south wall, but are now stored within the church. Within the graveyard there are tombstones and some table-tombs. There are also numbered stones and an inscription that reads 'ten trees planted 1896'. The graves also includes the Commonwealth war grave of Sapper J Brand (Royal Engineers) who died in November 2018. The churchyard is enclosed by rubble drystone walls with cast-iron railings and gates to the west and north. To the south and west there is flat coping to the walls with inscriptions such as 'short toil, eternal rest' on the inside. The gatepiers in the north wall are ashlar with moulded caps, and to the east are round-headed monolithic gatepiers. Adjacent to the gatepiers in the north are the sculpted remains of an angel bearing a shield with the Fothringham arms. The later graveyard extension to the north is on the other side of a small track. The former manse stable and coach-house (NO43NE0110) is adjacent to the northwest.
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NO43NE0006 - MURROES AND TEALING PARISH CHURCH, MURROES