Kincardine Kirk

Evening light on Kincardine Kirk. There has been a church on this site since the 7th century, the circular wall round the kirkyard indicates a very early place of worship. There is a legend that the Laird's of Kincardine and Tulloch were in competition to have the kirk built on their lands. Tulloch appeared to be succeeding but the stones were regularly and mysteriously transported back to Kincardine at night. Tulloch gave in to the will of God and so the kirk was built here in Kincardine parish.

 The Kirk boasts a lepers squint - a  narrow slit like window through which lepers were allowed to view services. This dates from before the Reformation. It is thought that there was a colony of lepers near Slugan.

In the 15th century a party of Cummings who had taken refuge in the kirk when they were being pursued by Stewarts and Grants were burned alive in the kirk when the thatched roof was set alight by an arrow fired into it by their pursuers. Hard to imagine such a barbarous act taking place in what is now such a tranquil spot.

Later owners of the KIncardine estate, the Dunbars, gifted commerative stained glass windows to the otherwise austere kirk ( extra)