A 900-year-old Angus church will go up for auction this week – with a guide price starting at just £29,000.
A-listed Lundie Church, which is a five-minute drive from Piperdam, is going under the hammer after being deemed surplus to requirements by the local community.
The historic kirk was built in the 12th century by the Durward family, who dedicated it to St Lawrence the Martyr.
It later came under the care of Church of Scotland and was renovated in 1846, and again in 1892.
It was recently sold to a property developer who is now putting it up for auction.
According to the auction listing, it has a guide price of between £29,000 and £39,000 and could be redeveloped as a holiday home or holiday let.
Building is ‘surplus to requirements’
A Church of Scotland spokesman said: “The congregation of Lundie Parish Church is in a union with Muirhead Parish Church and the building was surplus to requirements.
“It was decided a few years ago, following consultation with the community, that it should be put up for sale on the open market in the normal way.
“A war memorial, an iron memorial window grid and a communion table was removed from the church for safe keeping prior to the sale, which was delayed due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
“The building was recently sold to a property developer.”
Lundie Church – which is 10 miles north-west of Dundee, and sits at the head of the Dighty valley in the Sidlaws – is the final resting place of Admiral Duncan, who led the 1797 defeat of the Dutch in the Battle of Camperdown.
In 2019, attempts to find a new use for the property by Church of Scotland proved unsuccessful.
A spokesman for Online Property Auctions Scotland, which is handling the sale, said: “The church became surplus to requirements and it was decided by the owners it was time to sell it.”
