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Photograph of the Belgian Bell in Kettins Churchyard, Scotland. Belgian bell of 1519, complete with belfry, close to the west gable it once surmounted.
Photograph of the Belgian Bell in Kettins Churchyard, Scotland.
All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.
Photograph of the Parish Church Kettins, Scotland. The earliest reference to a church building here shows that Bishop David of St Andrews dedicated a church in Kettins to St Bride, or st Bridget, in 1249. There are later references to the “abthen” of Kettins, a term usually suggesting a monastery. There was no monastery in Kettins in the later Middle Ages but it maybe there was a much earlier church in Kettins. That a parish church stood here in the thirteenth century is indicated by fragments of architectural stonework from that time. The present church was built in 1768 with the north wing added in 1870 and the tower in 1891.
Photograph of the Parish Church Kettins, Scotland.
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Tour Scotland photograph of the Pictish Stone at Kettins, Scotland. The cross slab stands beside the northern boundary wall of Kettins churchyard, facing the north side of the parish church. The slab is Old Red Sandstone, was possibly quarried in Kettins parish. The six foot high stone is a tapering rectangular slab fixed into a nineteenth century base and supported by iron fittings. Decoration survives only on the front face. The cross slab has stood in its present location for around 150 years. It was found around 1865, in use as a footbridge over the Kettins Burn, which runs beside the Church. The front of the cross slab is very worn, with much of its detail no longer visible
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