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What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Chesters Church as Architectural Fragment (medieval), Church (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Chesters Church is associated with St Cuthbert, a revered 7th-century Northumbrian saint linked to healing and protection. Local tradition suggests the site may have once been a place of pilgrimage, though specific cures or rituals connected to it are not well documented.
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Places near here
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Chesters, Southdean Parish ChurchChurch (19th Century) (1874), War Memorial (20th Century) · 328 yd
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LustrutherTower House (medieval)(possible) · 1651 yd
Dykeraw TowerTower House (medieval) · 1.0 mi
Belling HillMountain / peak · 1.2 mi
Dykeraw PlantationForest · 1.7 mi
Crown PlantationForest · 1.9 mi
Wolfelee HillMountain / peak · 2.3 mi
Hobkirk War MemorialMemorial · 2.7 miOther information
Photo: Walter Baxter · CC BY-SA 2.0