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Old Churchyard, Tillicoultry House, Tillicoultry (excluding Scheduled Hog-Backed Stone, Scheduled Monument No 2328)

A Category B Listed Building in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.1587 / 56°9'31"N

Longitude: -3.7341 / 3°44'2"W

OS Eastings: 292395

OS Northings: 697583

OS Grid: NS923975

Mapcode National: GBR 1M.HT8V

Mapcode Global: WH5Q7.MG2H

Plus Code: 9C8R5758+F9

Entry Name: Old Churchyard, Tillicoultry House, Tillicoultry (excluding Scheduled Hog-Backed Stone, Scheduled Monument No 2328)

Listing Name: Old Churchyard, Tillicoultry House, Tillicoultry (excluding Scheduled Hog-Backed Stone, Scheduled Monument No 2328)

Listing Date: 12 June 1972

Last Amended: 13 March 2015

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 406135

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB42056

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Old Churchyard, Tillicoultry House, Tillicoultry

ID on this website: 200406135

Location: Tillicoultry

County: Clackmannanshire

Town: Tillicoultry

Electoral Ward: Clackmannanshire North

Traditional County: Clackmannanshire

Tagged with: Cemetery

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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'.

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