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Mertoun, Church of Scotland
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Church of Scotland,
Mertoun
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A simple stone church, built in 1658, renovated in 1820 and enlarged in 1898. The interior has plain wooden pews and the windows are clear rather than stained glass.
This old graveyard towards the eastern boundary of Mertoun Estate was the site of the original Mertoun Parish Church thought to date back to the 12th century and dedicated to St Ninian by David De Bernham in 1241. The church is long gone and the only building in the graveyard is a neglected vault that was a mausoleum for the Scotts of Harden. A replacement church was constructed 900m to the west of this site in 1658 and a new parish graveyard is at Clintmains. There are some good 18th century symbolic gravestones and there is a small modern burial enclosure adjacent to the west boundary of the old graveyard.
See the entry on Canmore.
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