Exterior And Interior Of Parish Church On History Visit To Aberlemno Angus Scotland

Tour Scotland 4K travel video, with some Scottish music, of the exterior of the Parish Church and graveyard on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Aberlemno, Angus, Britain, United Kingdom. The first written record of a church at Aberlemno was in 1242. It is possible that the church here at that time was a renaming of an earlier church, Egglespether, which is recorded in 1161 as belonging to Restenneth Priory. There may have been a church on this site from as early as 710, when King Nechtan of the Picts imported masons from Northumbria, England, to build Restenneth Priory and other stone churches, including Egglespether. The present church dates back to a major rebuilding of an earlier rectangular structure which took place in 1722. What emerged was a T-plan kirk of the type that became so popular across post-Reformation Scotland. A bell was added in 1728, and the galleries in 1856. More minor changes took place in the second half of the 1900s. The interior of the church carries a number of reminders of its history. These include what seems to be an extremely old font, and a series of three memorials, to the three generations of the Mitchell family who served as ministers here throughout the 126 years from 1715 to 1841. Parish ministers of Aberlemno 1560 to 1910 George Lyall 1567; William Gardyne 1572;; David Lindsay of Pitairlie 1574 to 1580; James Ramsay 1585 to 1597; Henry Stirling 1597 to 1603; John Lindsay 1604 to 1649; John Ochterlony 1655 to 1695; John Ochterlony of Flemington 1690 to 1701; John Henderson 1709 to 1711; Thomas Mitchell 1715 to 1750; Andrew Mitchell 1750 to 1794; James Mitchell 1794 to 1841; John Crombie 1841 to 1844; Thomas Myles 1844 to 1891; James Beattie Burnett 1891 to 1905; Frederick David Langlands 1905 to 1909; David Nelson 1910. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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