Cleish

Cleish is a rural hamlet off the B9097 between Crook of Devon and the M90 motorway, three miles south-west of Kinross in central Scotland.

The church can trace its roots to the 13th century and was originally dedicated to St. Cuthbert.

The church was again rebuilt following a fire in 1832 and the tower was added in 1897, nominally to mark Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee.

[5] Thomas James was ordained here in 1691 but left in 1698 to be official chaplain to the ill-fated Darien Expedition to colonise Panama, all in the employ of the Company of Scotland.

The sedimentary rocks are a collection of mudstones and sandstones and limestones assigned to the Strathclyde and Inverclyde groups.

Two separate sills are identified; one forming a part of the Midland valley Sill-complex consisting of quartz-microgabbro and to the south, the Hawkcraig Point Sill of analcime-microgabbro, part of a wider Carboniferous to Permian set of intrusions.