Rothiemay, parish

Grid reference

NJ 544 482 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

354400 848200

Latitude

57.521896434625646

Longitude

-2.761416221984944

Nearby places

St Durstan's Church, Rothiemay (0.62 miles)

Peter's Well, Rothiemay (0.63 miles)

St Knauchland's Kirk, Rothiemay (2.25 miles)

St Knauchland's Well, Rothiemay (2.25 miles)

St Carol's Well, Ruthven RVX, Cairnie (2.26 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for Rothiemay Old Parish Church, which NMRS records (Canmore ID 17822).

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Relationships with other parishes

Within Keith, parish (formerly)

Relationships with other places

Contains Peter's Well, Rothiemay

Contains St Durstan's Church, Rothiemay

Contains St Knauchland's Kirk, Rothiemay

Contains St Knauchland's Well, Rothiemay

Contains St Marnoch's Ford, Marnoch & Rothiemay

Parish details

Rothiemay

Parish TLA

ROM

County

Banffshire

Medieval diocese

Moray

Parish notes

In origin a chapel of Rechmalrune (sic), itself a mensal church of the bps. of Moray, the church of Rothiemay was accorded parochial status by Simon II bp. of Moray 1244 x 51. The church was confirmed inits position as mensal church of the bps. of Moray by Cardinal John of St Laurence in 1254 (CPL i, 341; Vet. Mon. no. cxcii). The parsonage remained so annexed, the cure being a vicarage perpetual (Moray Reg. no. 447; Assumptions 380, 400; RSS, xxxviii, 102v). Cowan 1967, 174.