Kinneddar Castle

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Kinneddar Castle
Kinneddar Church Cemetery with the mound indicating the location of the old church

Kinneddar Church Cemetery with the mound indicating the location of the old church

Creation time : 1187
Castle type : Niederungsburg
Conservation status: Burgstall
Standing position : Bishops of Moray
Construction: Quarry stone
Place: Lossiemouth
Geographical location 57 ° 42 '37.1 "  N , 3 ° 18' 12.2"  W Coordinates: 57 ° 42 '37.1 "  N , 3 ° 18' 12.2"  W.
Height: 15  m ASLTemplate: height / unknown reference
Kinneddar Castle (Scotland)
Kinneddar Castle

Kinneddar Castle is an abandoned low castle in Lossiemouth in the Scottish administrative unit of Moray and served as the residence of the Bishops of Moray from around 1187 . The first documented resident was Bishop Richard (1187–1203). Very little remains of the castle, but the site is a Scheduled Monument .

history

Bishop Archibald had the castle expanded and restored around 1280; it served as a bishop's residence until the end of the 14th century. From the castle only a fragment of a quarry stone wall has survived to this day, which was integrated into the boundary wall of the church cemetery of Kinneddar. Loch Spynie , then open to the sea and much larger than it is now, came close to the castle and its marshes surrounded the castle's enclosure on three sides. The castle still existed as a ruin in 1734, consisting of a central tower surrounded by two concentric, hexagonal enclosures. This arrangement made the castle unique in Scotland.

Adjacent to the castle grounds was the old church of Kinneddar, which became a second cathedral in Moray after the bishopric of Birnie had moved . The Pictish sculptures found in the neighborhood of the castle and the cemetery indicate that the area was an important Christian center in the 8th century (see Culdeer ). It could have been one of the main places where the Picts were Christianized .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Kinneddar Castle  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  3. ↑ a b Richard Oram: Moray & Badenoch, A Historical Guide . Birlinn, Edinburgh 1996. ISBN 1-874744-46-7 . P. 122.
  4. ^ Richard Oram: Moray & Badenoch, A Historical Guide . Birlinn, Edinburgh 1996. ISBN 1-874744-46-7 . P. 98.