Mortlach, parish

Grid reference

NJ 323 392 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

332300 839200

Latitude

57.43829480626585

Longitude

-3.127873325150173

Nearby places

Elchies, former parish, Knockando (4.17 miles)

St Durstan's Well, Aberlour (4.24 miles)

St Durstan's Church, Aberlour (4.31 miles)

Aberlour, parish (4.31 miles)

Fumac Kirk, Botriphnie (4.39 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Relationships with other places

Contains Lady's Well, Mortlach

Contains Torr na h-Oighe, Mortlach

Parish details

Mortlach

Parish TLA

MLH

County

Banffshire

Medieval diocese

Aberdeen

Parish notes

Cowan (1967, 152) considers that the Malcolm III grant may be based on fact. By 1256, and evidently during the episcopate of Peter Ramsay 1247-56, the church with all its fruits had been erected into a prebend of Aberdeen cathedral, as it remained. Both parsonage and vicarage were thus annexed, while the cure was a vicarage pensionary (ibid. ii, 40, 252 + other refs.). Cowan 1967, 52.