Glencairn, parish

Grid reference

NX 809 904 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

280900 590400

Latitude

55.19344991231623

Longitude

-3.8711615871570975

Nearby places

Dalmakerran, settlement, Tynron (1.47 miles)

Lady's Knowe, Tynron (1.59 miles)

Tynron, parish (1.63 miles)

Nether Kirkcudbright, Glencairn (2.45 miles)

Kirkcudbright, settlement, Glencairn (2.45 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The NGR is for Glencairn Old Parish Church, where at least three fragments of tenth-century crosses have been found, as well as the gables of a twelfth-/thirteenth-century church building (NMRS).

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Relationships with other places

Contains Auchenfedrick, settlement, Glencairn

Contains Kirkcudbright, ~eccles., Glencairn

Contains Kirkcudbright, settlement, Glencairn

Contains Knockausten, settlement, Glencairn

Contains Nether Kirkcudbright, Glencairn

Contains Upper Kirkcudbright, Glencairn

Parish details

Glencairn

Parish TLA

GLC

County

Dumfriesshire

Medieval diocese

Glasgow

Parish notes

Both parsonage and vicarage were annexed to the common fund of the chapter of Glasgow cathedral by William bp. of Glasgow 1450 (and Pope Nicholas V in 1453). A claim to the patronage was made by Lord Kilmaurs in 1460 but he was forced to concede in 1464, and the annexation continued till the Reformation. Glas. Reg. nos. 357-8, 376-8, 393, 405; CPL xi 413; Thirds 24; Laing Chrs. no.890; Reg. of Pres. ii 74, 162). For more details (but no more refs.), see Cowan 1967, 75.