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Corrie Church is a medieval church and graveyard in Dumfriesshire, located on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a sedimentary formation of Wenlock-age wacke that underlies much of the Southern Uplands. The church survives as substantial remains and represents a place of Christian worship and burial that served a rural community over several centuries. Medieval parish churches of this type were focal points for spiritual life and often replaced earlier places of gathering or worship, becoming established landmarks in the landscape.
The surrounding graveyard contains burials spanning generations, a physical record of the community that maintained this site. The sturdy wacke geology beneath provides stable ground for such long-term use and the preservation of archaeological deposits. The site's sheltered position within the Dumfriesshire valley landscape would have made it accessible to dispersed settlements throughout the medieval period.
Corrie Church is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM12764, recognising its significance as a surviving medieval religious site. The church and its associated burial ground remain important evidence of medieval settlement patterns, social organisation and spiritual practice in the Scottish borders region, embodying centuries of continuous use by successive generations of local people.
Corrie Church, church and graveyard is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12764. View the official record →
Corrie Church is a medieval church and graveyard in Dumfriesshire, located on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a sedimentary formation of Wenlock-age wacke that underlies much of the Southern Uplands. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12764.
Corrie Church, church and graveyard dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a church and graveyard. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Corrie Church, church and graveyard is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM12764.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Burnswark or Birrenswark Hill,fort & Roman camps (5.7 km), Malls Castle, settlement 320m W of Mallscastle (6.7 km), Douglashall Pendicle, cairn 415m W of (7.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Corrie Church, church and graveyard's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Corrie Church, church and graveyard stands on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.