OS1/19/15/20

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  2. Ordnance Survey Name Books
  3. Kincardineshire OS Name Books, 1863
  4. Kincardineshire volume 15
  5. OS1/19/15/20
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[Site of Chapel Continued] [continued from page 19]
of Maryculter was in their possession, they erected on the Estate of Blairs a Chapel for the convenience of their tenants residing on the east side of the Barony. The Chapel stood on the Side of the hill about half a mile South of the present college. The remains of this Chapel were taken down in 1858, by the present procurator of the College (Revd. [Reverend] A. Fleming.) During the time of the Templars one of their Chaplains was stationed at Blairs, and one of the parks (of the present Home farm) called the Manse Park, was the land belonging to the said Chaplain, who was called the Parson of Blairs. The presentation to the Parsonage of Blairs is mentioned in the Title Deeds of the Estate 1535, as belonging to the proprietors of the Estate, i.e. the proprietors of the Estate are the Sole Patrons. In 1535 the Estate of Blairs together with the above named Chapel and Parsonage was conveyed to Menzies of Pitfoddels by the Knights Hospitallers, the Estate remained in possession of the family of Menzies from 1535 till the 19th. of April 1827, when John Menzies Esqr the last of the family of that name, conveyed the present Estate of Blairs to the Roman Catholic Bishops of Scotland, for the establishment of a College. (The above information was supplied by the Revd. [Reverend] Andrew Fleming Procurator Blairs College).
[Signed] B. Render Corp. R.E. [Corporal Royal Engineers]
Manse Park Manse Park
Manse Park
Manse Park		 Title Deeds 1535
Estate Plan 1842
Revd. [Reverend] Andrew Fleming		 003.16 An arable field near Blairs College which was formerly the Glebe or Parsonage for the Chapel above described

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Parish of Maryculter

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