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Church, built on site of earlier church, surrounded by associated graveyard. In the 7th Century AD, a church dedicated to St Lawrence was said to have stood about a mile to the east of the village. Queen Margaret made a pilgrimage to it between 1073-93. In the 13th Century, it was a Rectory belonging to St Andrews and was dedicated to Bishop David in 1244. No trace of this earlier church has been found. It is said that when the present church was erected in 1804, it took the place of an earlier one built in 1626 and that, when the older one was being taken down, a stone was found on which 'the figure of a man lying on a grid-iron was carved, representing, it was supposed, the martyrdom of St Lawrence'. This stone, which has been lost, may have been a Pictish monument. Some of the stones from the earlier church were inserted in the walls of the new church. The present church, still in use, was restored in 1895. In the northwest corner of the church, adjacent to the pulpit is a stained glass window, dedicated 17 May 1922, commemorating members of the congregation, and adherents, who died in World War 1.
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