St Gordian's Kirk

Pretty well shrouded in the depths of time and mystery....

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland writes: This is the traditional site of St. Gordian's Kirk, of which Pennecuik wrote in 1715, (A Pennecuik 1815) "there is nothing now to be seen but the rubbish and ruins", and to which Armstrong (M J Armstrong 1775), alluded in 1775 as "the scarce discernable remains of St Gorgham's Chapel". In view of the discovery of an inscribed stone of Early Christian date (NT13SE 3) in the immediate vicinity, it is possible that the sacred associations of the site are of very long standing, while the probability of a church or chapel having stood hereabouts in pre-Reformation times is increased by the neighbouring place-name "Kirkhope"

At Grid Reference - NT 1940 3070