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Remains of church which dates from before 1272. The earliest church established on this site is said to have been dedicated to St Talarican (Talorgan / Tarquin / Tarlogan) in the 6th - 8th Centuries AD, although there is no evidence of this early site. All that now remains is the roofed belltower, in a fair state of preservation, with a richly carved double-arched bellcote dated 1661, part of the former chancel and a handful of burial aisles. Between 1681 and 1684 a loft was built in the tower with a prison below on the first floor. The obvious later steps to the first floor on the east side of the tower bear an inscription and the date 1721. The old church consisted of a nave with aisles on the west and south. The west aisle belonged to the Ogilvies of Durn, the south, now divided into two, belonged to the Abercrombies of Birkenbog (later Glasshaugh) and the Ogilvies of Findlater and Boyne. The west portion contains the mural wall tomb of Ogilvy of Findlater, the east portion a mural tomb of a recumbent effigy in armour dated circa 1509. The Abercrombie of Glassaugh burial aisle is late 17th Century with a small apex bellcote. The church was replaced in 1804 by a new church circa 250 m to the south, now no longer in ecclesiastical use (NJ56SE0084). The graveyard has an interesting collection of tomb stones dating from the early 16th to 20th Centuries.
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