Publication Account

Date 1982

Event ID 1017827

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

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Dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, the pre-Reformation church of Dingwall belonged to Pluscarden Priory. In the churchyard to the north of the present church there is an enclosure called St. Clement's Aisle which is a surviving fragment of the medieval parish church. That church was thatched and in 1731 burned to the ground, a disturbance caused by a burgess shooting at a pigeon (MacRae, 1974, 334). Dingwall parishioners were forced to worship in a hired dwelling until a new church was built in 1801.

Information from ‘Historic Dingwall: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1982).