Rescobie, parish

Grid reference

NO 509 520 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

350900 752000

Latitude

56.657339708885615

Longitude

-2.801000192827102

Nearby places

Tubirmanyn, well, Rescobie ? (1.42 miles)

St Ninian's Loch, Aberlemno (1.64 miles)

Forfar, parish (formerly Restenneth) (1.82 miles)

St Peter's Church, Forfar (1.82 miles)

Eglispeder, settlement Forfar (1.9 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for the modern parish church, built 1820; but there is a stone in the kirkyard dated 1750, indicating at least that there was a kirk on this site before the present one.

Relationships with other places

Contains Balmadies, settlement, Rescobie

Contains Lady's Dowry, Rescobie

Contains St Ninian's Chapel, Rescobie

Adjacent St Ninian's Loch, Aberlemno

Contains Tubirmanyn, well, Rescobie ?

Parish details

Rescobie

Parish TLA

RES

County

Angus

Medieval diocese

St Andrews

Parish notes

‘The old burial ground at Balmadies .. once had a chapel dedicated to St Ninian’ Atkinson 1994, 6. Note also that nearby Balgavies Loch is St Ninians Loch 1590s Pont. However there is no physical evidence of an early church (Atkinson ibid.) Note also Chapelton between Mains of Balgavies and Balgavies Loch. Is this the site of the ‘capella’ mentioned with Rescolbie c. 1250? (St A. Lib. 36)