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Parish church and churchyard. The church is rectangular with harled walls and granite margins, bellcote on the west entrance gable and round-headed windows with original glazing. Original pulpit with sounding board, gallery U-plan on square wooden columns dates to 1803. The churchyard contains a few 18th century slabs and a built-up burial enclosure. The churchyard wall is rubble built but partly harled. The gravestones include a Medieval grave slab with a calvary cross and chalice, this may be the stone referred to in NJ41SW0032. The kirkyard also contains an iron mortsafe. The graves include that of Major James Leith VC, awarded the Victoria Cross 1858 during the Indian Mutiny. Also the Commonwealth war graves of Rev Alexander Jack, Royal Army Chaplain's Department (died 22 November 1920) and Private JA Taylor, Gordon Highlanders (died 14 September 1919).
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