Abstract :
The great majority of Scottish parish churches owe their present appearance to reconstructions
carried out from the later eighteenth or nineteenth centuries. It was the view of the authors of this
paper, however, that in many cases those reconstructions had been relatively superficial, and that
medieval work might have survived under what could, in some cases, be little more than a modern
veneer. To test this view, a survey was carried out of all medieval parish sites within the dioceses
of Dunblane and Dunkeld. The findings from that survey are summarized in this paper.
