Cumbrae, parish

Grid reference

NS 157 551 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

215700 655100

Latitude

55.75412547536694

Longitude

-4.937190219672168

Nearby places

St Colm's Kirk, Cumbrae (0 miles)

St Andrew's Chapel, episc. Cumbrae (0.43 miles)

Ninian Brae, Cumbrae (1.22 miles)

Ballochmartin, settlement Cumbrae (1.67 miles)

St Vey's Chapel, Cumbrae (2.14 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Notes

NGR is for the site of the church built in 1802, on the site of a church built in 1612, which had replaced "ane kirk callit Sanct Colmis Kirke". A fine collection of early Christian stones have been found at the site (NMRS). In spite of the antiquity of this site, the Cumbraes were not an independent parish until quite late in the Middle Ages. During the fourteenth century it was often referred to as a chapel of Largs (Paisley Reg. 238; 239; 241 [papal confirmation of 1381];242-3 [papal confirmation of 1387]. By 1549 Dean Monro could refer to it as 'Sanct Colmis kirke', presumably implying that it was a parish by this time. It was certainly a parish by the Reformation, and it appears as 'Kirk of Cumray' in Assumption 528.

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Relationships with other parishes

Within Largs, parish (formerly)

Relationships with other places

Contains Ballochmartin, settlement Cumbrae

Contains Ninian Brae, Cumbrae

Contains St Andrew's Chapel, episc. Cumbrae

Contains St Colm's Kirk, Cumbrae

Contains St Vey's Chapel, Cumbrae

Contains St Vey's Chapel, Cumbrae

Contains St Vey's Tomb, Cumbrae

Parish TLA

CUM

County

Bute

Medieval diocese

Glasgow