Abdie Church

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Ruin of the Abdie Church

The ruins of the Abdie Church ( English Abdie old parish Church - also called St Magridin) is located three kilometers southeast of Newburgh and 0.8 km southwest of Lindores in Fife in Scotland .

It was consecrated in 1242 by Bishop David de Bernham (d. 1253) and was a narrow single-nave church that was given a side aisle in 1661. The church, founded by the Order of the Culdeer and consecrated to St Muggin ( Scottish Gaelic Magridin ) belonged in the 13th century to Lindores Abbey, founded in 1178 or 1191 and was used as a parish church until it was abandoned. In 1555 the “High Altar of Our Lady of Abdie” is mentioned, so that it must have been rededicated. The church was abandoned in 1827 in favor of the modern church and restored in 1856. It was the burial place of the Balfours of Denmylne (also Denmilne) from the 17th century.

The ruins of the Abdie Church are in good condition. A 14th-century tombstone and a 15th-century portrait were found in the church chancel and are in the basement of the Abdie rectory, near the ruins.

Lindores Stone

Lindores Stone

The 1.7 m high and 0.56 m wide Pictish symbol stone is not in its original position, but is set up in a small building at the entrance to Abdie Churchyard. The Class I stone, also called "Abdie Stone", is a good example of the stone carving art of the Picts in the 7th century AD. It has three typical symbols:

  • above three circles, the central one of which is larger than the other two. All are provided with a horizontal bar that runs across the center. The triple circle symbol has been interpreted as a cauldron. There is a large cauldron on the Glamis Manse Icon Stone in Glamis , Angus .
  • at the bottom there is the crescent moon and the V-rod symbol.
  • on one side there is a representation of a mirror.

The front view of the stone was later used as the basis for a sundial and as a measuring point for the official national survey.

literature

  • Ian B. Cowan: The parishes of medieval Scotland. Edinburgh 1967.
  • Richard Fawcett: Scottish medieval churches: architecture and furnishings. Stroud 2002.
  • A. Jackson: The symbol stones of Scotland: a social anthropological resolution to the problem of the Picts . Kirkwall 1984.

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Coordinates: 56 ° 20 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 3 ° 11 ′ 55.5 ″  W.