Cambusmichael Church

Heritage listing

Date Added 05/03/1993 Type Ecclesiastical: church Local Authority Perth And Kinross Parish St Martins NGR NO 11566 32587 Coordinates 311566, 732587 — The monument consists of the remains of Cambusmichael parish church which date from the fifteenth/sixteenth century. There is evidence for an earlier church on this site which was confirmed to Scone by Richard, Bishop of St Andrews (c.1165-78). The church either passed to the priory or had been constructed by them as a result of the grant of the lands of Cambusmichael made by David I (1124-53). The church was abandoned at some time after the parish of Cambusmichael was merged with St Martins at the beginning of the eighteenth century. The building, situated in its old graveyard, is on the bank of the River Tay opposite to the settlement of Stanley. The church is rectangular on plan, measuring 13.3m E-W by 4.5m within walls 0.9m thick. The walls, reduced in places (2.5m to wallhead) are of random-coursed, worked rubble with fine ashlar dressings. Both gables are set back at wallhead level. The W one has a bellcote and a small segmental-headed window in the upper level. The round-headed entrance is in the S wall near the W end. Of the three windows originally in the S wall, only a small, inwardly splayed, round- headed example with a faint roll-moulding survives intact. Only the sill of the E-most window survives. A stoup adjoins the entrance and in the N wall at the E end is an aumbry. There are put-log holes in the E end which may indicate the position of a wooden loft. The area to be scheduled is rectangular, extending 2m from the exterior walls of the chapel, measuring a maximum of 19.1m ENE-WSW by 10.3m NNW-SSE, as shown in red on the accompanying map.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.