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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CHURCH (Remains of) [Ellon] | Church (Remains of) Church (Remains of) Church (Remains of) |
Revd. [Reverend] James Smith. Parish Minister. Alexander Gordon Esq. Castle of Ellon. Mr. Jamieson. Factor. |
038 | All that remains of the Old Church of Ellon is a portion of one of the walls, bearing the arms of two of the family's of this parish. viz. Cheynes of Essilmont (now extinct); and the Forbeses of Waterton, - "Ellon", we read in the View of the Dioces, "hath the blessed Virgin Mary for its tutelar. The patronage belongeth to the Earl of Aberdeen, who had it from Waterton, who had it from the Earl of Elgin; who got it with the other patronages belonging to Kinloss Abbay. It has a choir and two aisles; one for the Cheynes of Essilmont (now extinct); another for the Forbeses, but built by the Bannermans of Waterton. But both are now neglected and ruinous." This account refers, we may observe, to the Old Church, of which scarcely a vestige now remains. (Hepburn says that "the parish Kirk was then (1721) an old building in the form of a cross." "The Kirk and Kirk-lands of Ellon," continues the same authority, "belonged to the Cistercian Abbey of Kinloss in Moray. It is probable they were conferred on this Abbey at its foundation, in the middle of the twelfth century. They certainly belonged to it in the thirteenth century, as we find that, at an early period of the century following, Robert I, confirmed to the Abbot of Kinloss the advocation and donation of the Kirk of Ellon. (See Robertson's Index to the roll of lost Charters by K. [King] Robert I.) The Kinloss monks probably acquired Ellon from one of the earliest Earls of Buchan. The Buchan family seem to have been partial to the Cistercian order." Extracts from Pratts history of Buchan. page 235-6 |
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