Gamrie, parish

Grid reference

NJ 791 644 (assumed location)

Six-figure easting & northing

379100 864400

Latitude

57.669239387327686

Longitude

-2.3503930598841887

Nearby places

St John's Church, Gamrie (0 miles)

St John's Well, Gamrie (0.06 miles)

St John's Stone, Gamrie (0.26 miles)

St Mary's Chapel, Gamrie (2.36 miles)

Drostan Den, Aberdour (2.89 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for St John's Church, Gamrie.

Relationships with other places

Contains Cairnandrew, settlement, Gamrie

Contains St John's Church, Gamrie

Contains St John's Stone, Gamrie

Contains St John's Well, Gamrie

Contains St Mary's Chapel, Gamrie

Parish details

Gamrie

Parish TLA

GAM

County

Banffshire

Medieval diocese

Aberdeen

Parish notes

Granted to Arbroath Abbey by King William 1189x99 and confirmed to the uses of the abbey by Bp. Matthew of Aberdeen (x99). A vicarage perpetual had been erected by 1250 and was confirmed by Pope Alexander IV [Cowan has III] in 1257, the parsonage thereafter remaining with the abbey (Arb. Lib. i nos. 1, 27, 197-9; Abdn. Reg. i, 22; Ass 330, 387v). Cowan 1967, 72. Assume that the medieval parish kirk was St John's Kirk on cliff to west of Gardenstown (marked on OS Pathf. as St John's Church (Antiquity). Note that the bishop of St Andrews had rights in the lands of Gamrie (see Arb. Lib. i no. 169).