Urquhart, former parish., Urq & Logie Wester

Grid reference

NH 580 584 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

258000 858400

Latitude

57.59348844628451

Longitude

-4.375993298624114

County

Ross-shire

Nearby places

Urquhart & Logie Wester, modern parish (0.33 miles)

St James's Church (Epsicopal), Dingwall (1.81 miles)

Lemlair, former parish, Kiltearn (1.88 miles)

Cille Bhrea, eccles. Lemlair, Kiltearn (1.88 miles)

St Brighs, settlement, Lemlair, Kiltearn (1.93 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (non-extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for the Urquhart Old Parish Church.

Relationships with other parishes

Within Urquhart & Logie Wester, modern parish

Parish details

Urquhart part of Urquhart and Logie Wester ULW

Parish TLA

UQX

Medieval diocese

Ross

Parish notes

Erected in conjunction with the garbal teinds of Logie Wester and the quarter kirks of Cromarty and Rosemarkie to form the prebend of the treasurer of Ross in the re-erection of the chapter of Ross in 1256 (Vet. Mon. no.clxxxii). A vicarage had been erected by 1274, it being conjoined with that of Logie Wester by 1498, the joint parsonage teinds remaining with the treasurers’. (Bag. 51; RSS i no.273; v no.766; Ass. cited OPS ii (2), 548; Lords Appeal Cases (1814), x 637). Cowan 1967, 205. In Aberdeen Brev. ii fo.xc recto it mentions that the parish kirk of Urquhart was built ‘ex inciso robore’ - ‘of carved oak’, and states that Maolrubhai was killed there by Norse. The church is no very ruinous, in the centre of a very large cemetery, still in use. Visited 18.08.01. Parishes of Logie Wester (LWX) and Urquhart (UQX) united in c.1669 (Watson 1904, 113). However, Robert Monro, minister of Urquhart and Logy, witnesses a will in 1586 (Chisholm Writs no. 32).