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Speymouth Parish Church

Church (18th Century) (1732)-(1733)

Site Name Speymouth Parish Church

Classification Church (18th Century) (1732)-(1733)

Alternative Name(s) Red Kirk; Speymouth Church Of Scotland And Enclosing Walls

Canmore ID 108603

Site Number NJ36SW 46

NGR NJ 33651 60758

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Moray
  • Parish Speymouth
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Moray
  • Former County Morayshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ36SW 46 33651 60758

For (predecessor) Essil, St Peter's Church and Well (NJ 3395 6346 and 3403 6350, respectively), see NJ36SW 3. For (predecessor) Diupple, Old Parish Church (NJ 3282 5790), see NJ35NW 7. For Speymouth ('old') parish manse (NJ 33644 61166), see NJ36SW 47.

The parishes of Speymouth (formerly Dipple) and Essil were united by the Commissioners of Teinds on 14 July 1731, and the parish church was removed from Dipple to Speymouth in 1732.

H Scott 1915-61.

Architecture Notes

EXTERNAL REFERENCES:

Scottish Records Office

GD 44/Sec 38/Bundle 79

Wright work for the Church of Speymouth.

Estimate of £119.14.6.

Wright: John Ord.

1799

GD 44/Sec 38/Bundle 79

Sketch plans of ground floor and gallery of the Church of Speymouth. They show alterations to the seating.

c.1885

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