St Mackessog's Church, Auchterarder

Heritage listing

Date Added 08/02/1993 Type Ecclesiastical: church, Secular: mausoleum Local Authority Perth And Kinross Parish Auchterarder NGR NN 94811 14075 Coordinates 294811, 714075 — The monument consists of the remains of the late medieval church of St Mackessog, which once served as the parish kirk of Auchterarder. The church of Auchterarder was granted by Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn to the Abbey of Inchaffray on its foundation in c1200 and confirmed in 1203 by Pope Innocent III. The existing building dates from a later period, probably in the fifteenth/sixteenth century. It is situated in an old graveyard and is rectangular-plan, measuring 24m E-W by 7.4m N-S over walls 0.9m thick. The blind gables are intact but the intervening walls are fragmentary with stretches surviving to wall-head height of 2.6m. The walls are of thin coursed random rubble. No openings can be identified in the S wall. The only architectural feature surviving is a small piscina in the S wall near the E end. The W gable has two put-log holes at wall-head level and the E gable has a slightly projecting splayed base and a set-back at wall-head level. The E end has been partitioned for use as a burial enclosure for the Hunters of Auchterarder, dated 1832. The area to be scheduled is rectangular, extending 2m from the exterior walls of the church and measuring a maximum of 28m E-W by 11.4m N-S, as shown in red on the attached map.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.