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Benvie Church

A Category B Listed Building in Lochee, Dundee

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4704 / 56°28'13"N

Longitude: -3.0917 / 3°5'30"W

OS Eastings: 332837

OS Northings: 731452

OS Grid: NO328314

Mapcode National: GBR VG.LCRM

Mapcode Global: WH6Q4.GMZL

Plus Code: 9C8RFWC5+58

Entry Name: Benvie Church

Listing Name: Benvie Benvie Church Ruin and Churchyard

Listing Date: 11 June 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 343369

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10862

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200343369

Location: Liff and Benvie

County: Dundee

Electoral Ward: Lochee

Parish: Liff And Benvie

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

W gable of church, possibly pre-Reformation; rectangular-plan churchyard, wall re-built late 19th century.

CHURCH: W gable only remaining, totally covered in creeper.

CHURCHYARD: 17th, 18th and 19th century tombstones; rubble wall, inset stones to W wall.

Statement of Interest

A church at Benvie was dedicated in 1243; the parish was united with Liff in 1753, from which time presumably the church fell into ruin. The inset datestone to the left of the gates at the west wall is dated 1633; the stone to the right depicts the coat of arms of James Scrymgeour, 2nd Viscount Dudhope and his wife Isabella Carr, dated 1643. The cross slab, a Scheduled Monument and formerly situated in the churchyard, was removed by the Dundee District Museums Service in 1991 for museum display. Benvie Church Ruin ahd Churchyard forms a B group with Benvie Mill, Benvie Farmhouse, and the Road Bridge over Fowlis Burn near Benvie Mill.

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