Maryculter House

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Maryculter House

Maryculter House is a historic farmhouse in the village of Maryculter the lower reaches of Dee in the Scottish county of Aberdeenshire .

history

The lands of Culter , which lie on either side of the Dee, originally included the parishes of Maryculter and Peterculter . These fell under the jurisdiction of the monks of Kelso . But around 1187 King William the Lion lent part of these lands on the south bank of the river to the Knights Templar .

Between 1221 and 1236, Walter Byset, Lord of Aboyne , founded the Preceptory or College of the Templar Order on the site of today's Maryculter House Hotel . The ground floor of the house with its barrel vaulted ceiling is said to have been part of the Preceptor's apartment.

The Templars also built a chapel . In 1535 this chapel became a parish church, but was abandoned in 1782 and is now a fragment of ruins. The only architectural detail that has been preserved to this day is a piscina in the south wall. The chapel and the surrounding cemetery are classified as a Scheduled Monument . The Maryculter Trinity Church replaced later this chapel as a parish church.

The Templars were suppressed around 1309, but their lands and the parish church remained in the hands of the Order of St. John until 1563/1564 .

From 1535 to 1811 Maryculter House was first rented to the Menzies von Pitfodels ( Aberdeen ) family and then they bought the house, although another source says that the house belonged to the Lindsay family until 1726 .

In 1811 General William Gordon of Fyvie bought Maryculter House and his family owned the property until the death of Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon in 1931, which led to the sale of the house in 1935. The property was divided and the Home Park was bought by the Aberdeen City Scout Association to create the Templars' Park Scout Campsite . In 1936 the house was rebuilt.

The building is now a hotel, formerly called the Deeside Hotel , now the Maryculter House Hotel . Historic Environment Scotland has listed Maryculter House as a Category B Historic Building.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EJ Boyd: A brief history of the Knights of the Temple and of the Preceptory and Priory of St. George Aboyne 1794-1994 . In: Craftings . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Maryculter House and the Precatory of the Knights Templar . In: Maryculter House Hotel . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Aberdeenshire SMR . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b St Mary's Church, Maryculter . In: Places of Worship in Scotland . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  5. ↑ Entry on Maryculter Church  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
  6. ↑ Scheduled Monument - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  7. ↑ Alex Mitchell: The Old Burghs Of Aberdeen - Part 4 . In: Aberdeen Voice . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ OS1 / 19/15/7 . In: Scotland's Places . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  9. ^ The Gordon family at Fyvie Castle . In: Fyvie Castle Online . Retrieved on November 25, 2017.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / webcache.googleusercontent.com  
  10. ^ Templars' Park . In: Templars' Park . Scouts Scotland. Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  11. ↑ Old Maryculter House . In: Dictionary of Scottish Architects . Retrieved February 28, 2018.
  12. ^ Adam Watson: Place Names in Much of North-East Scotland . Paragon Publishing. P. 236. 2013. Accessed February 28, 2018.
  13. ↑ Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .

swell

  • Norman D. Nicol: Maryculter in the Eighteenth Century: Lairds, Kirk and People in a Lower Deeside Parish . 1999.

Web links

Commons : Maryculter House  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 57 ° 5 '55.3 "  N , 2 ° 15' 32.4"  W.