Kilneuair,church and settlement,1900m E of Ford

Heritage listing

Date Added 15/04/1935 Last Date Amended 11/01/1993 Supplementary Information Updated 23/06/2015 Type Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; church, Secular: settlement, including deserted and depopulated and townships Local Authority Argyll And Bute Parish Glassary NGR NM 88904 03675 Coordinates 188904, 703675 — The monument consists of the remains of the medieval church of Glassary, its burial ground and an associated township and market place, situated on the N edge of a flat-topped knoll 180m from the SE shore of Loch Awe. The church, which measures 21m from E to W by 5.6m transversely is of three main periods of construction: thirteenth century, late medieval and early sixteenth century. Internal features include an ornate piscina, a font and the W end panel of a tomb-chest of sixteenth century date. Until the sixteenth century this was the principal church of the extensive parish of Glassary. The wall of the existing pentagonal enclosure is of nineteenth century date but within it, especially to the S, there are intermittent traces of a turf-covered bank which may have enclosed an area about 45m in diameter. Three funerary monuments, two of which belong to the fourteenth to fifteenth century Loch Awe School of carvings, are to be found within the enclosure. Within the burial ground is a small roofless structure, presumably a mausoleum; though described in 1840 as an oratory, it is unlikely to predate the end of the eighteenth century. Within and outside the enclosure are the footings of at least four subrectangular buildings (up to 15m long and 6m wide) radiating out from the church, one of which has an associated yard and two of which are connected by a wall. These remains are probably to be associated with the former township of Kilneuair. A major dr

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.