St Magridin's Church With Music On History Visit To Abdie North Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with Scottish music, of St Magridin's Church at Abdie near Newburgh on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit to North, Fife, Scotland. This Scottish church, now roofless and unused, lies east-west and is a long, narrow medieval building. It was built in the 13th century and consecrated in 1242 by Bishop David de Bernham. It received significant additions in the seventeenth century. The church was abandoned in 1827 and was restored 1856 and then abandoned again. There are memorials on the north, east and west faces inside the old aisle. The church is surrounded by a graveyard. In common with most medieval churches, the majority of memorials are located on the south and east of the church. The roofless ruins of St. Magridin's church stand to the east of a farm lane on a small knoll, surrounded by a graveyard and boundary wall. The site is at the north west of Lindores Loch, where the loch has silted up and become boggy ground. Its east end looks over a gentle slope towards wooded and agricultural land. The church is a long gabled building with a later, western bellcote, a south porch and northern transept. It is built of red sandstone rubble which is predominately random, with squared and dressed detailing, and quoins. The east end of the church has a single projecting string course running between the buttresses and underlining three deeply splayed lancet windows, which are contemporary with the original structure. Above the central lancet is a stone which dates the restoration of the church to 1856. The embellishment of the gable, with skews, triple gablet at each end and a wheel-headed cross at the finial, dates to this time. In the northern transept the broad, flat arches of the windows and doors suggest that this aisle is a post-medieval addition. Its east wall has a square headed window, with bars inserted into it. The west wall has a blocked, square-headed window and door, on either side of another door, which has a square head with an armorial stone resting on the lintel. The arms have eroded, but they were probably those of Balfour of Denmylne. Below the north crowstepped gable is a square headed window which may date to the mid nineteenth century restoration. On the inside the window and door arches appear segmental, and may date to the seventeenth century. There are memorials on the north, east and west faces inside the aisle. A round arch leads into the church. Saint Adrian of May, sometimes given as Magridin, died 875, was a martyr saint of ancient Scotland, whose cult became popular in the 14th century. He is commemorated on 3 December. He may have been a bishop of Saint Andrews. Little is known of the life of this Scottish saint and martyr. He is held by some to have been an Irish monk and bishop, with the Gaelic name of Ethernan. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day.. Officially, the Scottish winter runs from the 21st of December through to the 20th March. All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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