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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017282
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017282
The rather plain, old kirk of Desk ford stands near the healt of the lands of the powerful Ogilvie family, who rose to become Lords Deskford and finally Earls of Findlater and SeafIeld. Within the kirk is a finely carved late Gothic sacrament house presented by Alexander Ogilvie of that ilk and his wife in 1551. This small aumbry or recess was used for the reservation of the consecrated elements of the mass and is decorated with two angels holding a monstrance (in which the host was displayed), a running vine and side pinnacles. Of more modern, Renaissance, fonn are the scrolls for the inscription, the heraldry and the corbels. Presented by a local magnate, this is an example of the emphasis on personal salvation through church endowment that was a prominent feature of the late medieval church.Alexander Ogilvie and his wife are buried in Cullen collegiate church (no. 50), to which they also presented a sacrament house.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
