Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Liff, former parish, Liff & Benvie
Grid reference
NO 333 328 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
333300 732800
Latitude
56.48268254645353
Longitude
-3.083128645362615
County
Angus
Nearby places
Liff & Benvie, parish (0 miles)
Fowlis Easter, parish (0.78 miles)
St Marnock's Church, Fowlis Easter (0.78 miles)
Benvie, former parish (Liff & Benvie) (0.9 miles)
Ladyfield, Liff & Benvie (1.82 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the church built in 1839, replacing the edifice which was built in 1774 close to the foundations of the former church (OSA 1794). These foundations can still be traced NW of the present church' (NMRS). The church is close (126 m) to the boundary of Liff & Benvie (OS 6" 1st edn).
Relationships with other parishes
Within Liff & Benvie, parish
Parish details
Liff part of Liff & Benvie BVX LIB and including Invergowrie IGX
Parish TLA
LIX
Medieval diocese
St Andrews
Parish notes
Confirmed to the uses of Scone by Richard bp. of St A. 1165x78 along with other churches confirmed by his predecessors in the reigns of Alex I. Malcolm IV and William I both parsonage and vicarage were thereafter annexed, the church, which in the 15th c. was a accounted as a pendicle of Logie-Dundee (q.v.), being sometimes served by a canon, but more frequently by a curate (Scone Lib. nos. 48, 50, 103; CPL x, 499, 504; Prot. Bk. Gray, 6; Ass. 311v). Cowan 1967, 132. Note that the abbacy of Scone rents to Johnne Donaldsoun and Cristiane Patersoun his spouse ‘ane aucht pairt of the toun and landis of the Kirktoun of Liff and the auchtene pairt of the croft callit Kilcrist togidder with the aucht pairt of the landis callit the Brewlandis of the said toun’ (1586 Scone Lib. app. no. 30).
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Liff
Head name
Liff
Place
Liff, former parish, Liff & Benvie
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Lyf 1165, Scone Lib.
Historic formLyf Head nameLiff PlaceLiff, former parish, Liff & Benvie Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceScone Lib., no. 48 Date of citation1165 x 1178 Feature named in sourceecclesiam de |
Associated person or bodyBishop of St Andrews Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
Source code
Scone Lib.
Source title
Liber Ecclesie de Scon
Series
Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs
Year
1843
Lif 1178, Scone Lib.
Historic formLif Head nameLiff PlaceLiff, former parish, Liff & Benvie Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceScone Lib., 50 Date of citation1178 x 1189 |
Associated person or bodyBishop of St Andrews Certainty of identity of person or bodyCertain |
Source code
Scone Lib.
Source title
Liber Ecclesie de Scon
Series
Bannatyne and Maitland Clubs
Year
1843
Lyf 1250, Dunf. Reg.
Historic formLyf Head nameLiff PlaceLiff, former parish, Liff & Benvie Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceDunf. Reg., no.313, p.209 Date of citation1250 x 1259 Feature named in sourceecclesia de |
Source code
Dunf. Reg.
Source title
Registrum de Dunfermelyn
Editors
C. Innes [though not named]
Series
Bannatyne Club
Year
1842