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Parish church, no longer in ecclesiastical use, built in 1840 on the site of earlier churches. The church of Kingoldrum is first recorded in 1178, and it was given to Arbroath Abbey around 1211-4. During the building of the current church, three sculpted stones were found in the walls of the old church, and they were donated to the NAMS in 1878. There is now no trace of any earlier church. The present church is a small oblong gothic rubble-built church with a slate roof, pinnacled belfry and projecting porches. The interior was remodelled in 1960. It is set within an irregular graveyard. To the south of the church is the Farquharson Mausoleum, built in circa 1850 and shown on the 1st edition OS map. It is a small ashlar mausoleum built in a classic style. It is pilastered, and has a projecting centre bay and an urn finial. The three carved stones consist of a Class II Pictish cross-slab, a slab with a cross carved in relief on one face and a part of a slab with a representation of the Crucifixion on one face and part of a Maltese cross on the other. A coffin-cover bearing an incised wheel-headed cross, which formerly lay in the churchyard, has been set up against the south wall of the church. There have also been cists and various other objects found in the graveyard (see NO35NW0004, NO35NW0005 and NO35NW0006). A Level 1 Standing Building Survey was carried out in November 2017 by Cameron Archaeology prior to proposed conversion. The churchyard contains the Commonwealth war grave of Aircraftman David Stewart, RAF Volunteer Reserve.
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NO35NW0003 - PARISH CHURCH, KIRKTON OF KINGOLDRUM