Fowlis Easter Parish Church
The Fowlis Easter Parish Church , also St Marnock's Church , is a church building of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the Scottish village of Fowlis Easter in the Council Area Angus . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
For his military successes, the Scottish King David I gave William Maule the lands of Foules around 1150 . This left the monks of St Andrews Priory in 1177 a piece of land to build a chapel. David de Bernham , Bishop of St Andrews , consecrated the Church in 1242. By marriage in 1377 Fowlis passed into the hands of the Gray family . Andrew Gray, 1st Lord Gray had today's church building built in 1453 as a collegiate monastery . King James IV visited the church in 1497. Various paintings and inscriptions probably prompted Patrick Gray, 4th Lord Gray, around the middle of the 16th century. With the Scottish Reformation , the monastery was dissolved in 1558. In 1618 the parish of Easter Fowlis was united with the neighboring parish in Lundie . In 1889 the Fowlis Easter Parish Church was redesigned by Thomas Saunders Robertson .
description
The elongated hall church is simply designed in a Gothic style. A simple archivolt surrounds the arched main portal on the south facade. A curved crown runs into the sculpted coat of arms of Lords Gray . There are three pointed arch windows along the south facade and four on the north facade . While an ogival tracery is embedded in the west gable , there is a small round window on the east gable. The final gable roof is covered with gray slate. On the west gable sits a small roof turret with an open bell.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Network presence of the parish
- Scotland's Churches Trust information
- Entry on Fowlis Easter Parish Church in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 56 ° 29 '17.9 " N , 3 ° 6' 9.4" W.