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Church still in use on the site of its predecessor. Miller (1860) records that the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Carmyllie was founded by David Strachan on 5 March 1500-1, the parish of Carmyllie was erected and confirmed in 1609 and that about the same time the present parish church was built on the site of St Mary's Chapel. Warden argued for the probability that the older portion of Carmyllie Church is the chapel built in 1500 by David Strachan. When surveyed by the OS in 1958, they concluded that 'The west and east ends of the south wall and the west and east gables of the nave are of ashlar construction, and the few architectural features point to a 17th century date for this portion of the church. There is no architectural evidence for a pre-Reformation date, although the walls may contain part of the earlier chapel walls. The central and northern parts of the church are entirely modern. It is therefore almost certain that this is a 17th century church on the site of AD 1500 chapel'. The present church is oblong, constructed in ashlar and slate, has a belfry and was built in 1609. It was altered in 1780, the north aisle added in 1836 and was and enlarged and remodelled internally to form a T-plan preaching kirk in 1874. Inside a fragment of the laird's pew is dated 1657. The churchyard is a rubble walled enclosure extended in 1869, containing gravestones from the 18th century onwards. The boundary walls are low saddlebacked coped rubble walls with inset ironwork railings, coped square-section ashlar gatepiers and gates to the east. On the east side of the churchyard is a hearse-house (NO54SW0030). Within the churchyard is the Commonwealth war grave of Private J Peters, Black Watch, who died in October 1916.
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NO54SW0019 - CARMYLLIE