Monument record MHG8720 - Church, Marybank

Summary

Late 18th church; survives as a ruin.

Location

Grid reference Centred NH 7570 7598 (19m by 8m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH77NE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish LOGIE EASTER

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Full Description

NH77NE 5 7570 7598
Dated 1767. Disused since about 1820. (This church succeeded that described on NH77NW 9, and was replaced by NH77NE 6.)
Name Book 1874. <1>

The roofless shell of this church stands in dense vegetation. A plain rectangular building of mortared rubble, it measures 20m E to W by 8m transversely. A tall flat-lintelled window survives in W gable, and the last vestiges of a splayed window in E gable.
OSA 1792; RCAHMS 1979, visited October 1977. <2><3>

Marked as Church (in ruins) on 1st edition Ordnance Survey.<4>

The second in a series of four successive parish churches for Logie Easter. Visited and photogtraphed during the Highland Kirkyards project, run by Highland Buildings Preservation Trust. No sign of an associated graveyard. <5><6>

By White Lodge are the remains of another church built around 1767 and in use for approximately fifty years. This is reputed to have become the parish church when the heather roof of the original Marybank church went into disrepair (pers comm. local resident). Remnants of the Laird’s loft can still be seen and in winter the path linking it to Balnagown Castle is plain to see. <7>

Sources/Archives (7)

  • <1> Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 25, 30.
  • <2> Text/Publication/Volume: Sir John Sinclair (ed.). 1791-9. The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes. Vol. 4, 475.
  • <3> Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region. . 25, No. 207.
  • <4> Image/Map: Ordnance Survey. 1871-76. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 25 inch map: Ross-shire. Digital.
  • <5> Collection/Project Archive: Robinson, B; Scott, M; Wright, A. 03/2010. Highland Kirkyards: Ross and Cromarty. Highland Buildings Preservation Trust. 29/07/2010. Paper (Original).
  • <6> Image/Photograph(s): Highlands Buildings Preservation Trust. 2009. Photographs of Ross and Cromarty Kirkyards. Colour. . Digital.
  • <7> Collection/Project Archive: Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH). 2012. Pathways into the Past: Milton. Archaeology for Communities in the Highlands (ARCH). Yes. Digital. Site 13.

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Record last edited

Jan 19 2011 11:08AM

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