Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Sorbie St Michael, former parish, Sorbie
Grid reference
NX 417 468 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
241700 546800
Latitude
54.79097523602409
Longitude
-4.462364235466146
County
Wigtownshire
Nearby places
St Michael's Church, SMX Sorbie (0 miles)
Sorbie, parish (1.3 miles)
Longcastle Kirk, Longcastle, WIG (2.57 miles)
Longcastle, former parish, Kirkinner (2.57 miles)
Barwinnock, settlement, Glasserton (2.81 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (non-extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
NGR for the site of the church of St Michael of Little Sorbie.
Relationships with other places
Contains St Michael's Church, SMX Sorbie
Parish details
Sorbie St Michael SMX united with Sorbie St Fillan SFX c.1240; united with Cruggleton CGX and Kirkmadrine/Eggerness ENX in 1635. All now Sorbie SOR.
Parish TLA
SMX
Medieval diocese
Galloway
Parish notes
The barony of Sorbie having been divided on the death, or during the lifetime of Sir Ivo de Veteripont (Vieuxpont) c.1200, the barony of Little Sorbie and its church of St Michael SMX, passed to Ivo’s younger son, Alan de V., whose own son Robert granted the church to Dryburgh c.1220 (Dryburgh Liber no.71-73). This grant having been confirmed to the uses of the abbey by the prior and chapter of Whithorn c.1220, the church was annexed to the church of Great Sorbie c.1240, as each was unable to support a vicar, the history of the two churches then becoming one. Dryburgh Lib. nos. 74, 82-3. See also Sorbie SOR. The churches continued with Dryburgh until 1282, when the prior and convent of Whithorn agreed to pay Dryburgh 20 merks for the fruits and dues of the churches of Sorbie and Kirkfolan (Dryb. Lib. no.238). The united church thenceforward pertained to the priory of Whithorn, as it did at the Reformation, the parsonage revenues being thus annexed, while the cure was served by a vicar perpetual. RSS v no.3270, etc.. Cowan 1967, 184-5. See also CSSR iii, 177 (1431), when the church of Sourby is listed as one of the possessions of the priory of Whithorn.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Sorbie St Michael
Head name
Sorbie St Michael
Place
Sorbie St Michael, former parish, Sorbie
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Hypothetical
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Saints in this place-name
Michael (ns) (certain)
Michael, Archangel (certain)