Description

From 12th century. Small graveyard, situated on sloping ground, containing a number of other gravestones from 16th and 17th century gravestones with 1723 headstone with 1723 with carved angels, plough and mementos mori. Other recumbent gravestones with carved tools memento mori and initials. Some stones broken (2008). Incomplete boundary walls.

Statement of Interest

This small graveyard contains a number of early, rare and important gravestones (the scheduled hog-backed stone Scheduled Ancient Monument No 2328 is excluded from the listing).

The stones date from the 12th century onwards. Many have carvings of worker's tools, including spades, mallets, chisels, gloves, denoting the profession of the deceased. The graveyard was the site of a former pre-Reformation church of which there are no visible remains.

Listed building record updated 2008. Listed building record and statutory address updated 2015. Formerly listed as 'Old Churchyard, Tillicoultry House'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q15106444

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)