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Publication Account
Date 1978
Event ID 1018035
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018035
The first mention of the church at Montrose (Salorch) is in 1161 x 1162 (Barrow, 1960, 232). It was included among Brechin Cathedral's earliest benefices (Low, 1891, 23). The old parish church was described as a 'Gothic Structure rendered very gloomy and irregular by the large additions to the gallery and to the building itself' (Sinclair, 1793, v, 32). Francis Douglas also described it as an 'irregular' structure which was 'gloomy and disagreeable' on the inside (1782, 64). That church had been extensively refurbished in the early seventeenth century (Low, 1891, 112) and in 1690 the magistrates and kirk session met jointly to consider the ruined nature of the choir, but the only repairs carried out on that occasion included propping up the walls with trees brought from Edzell (Low, 1891, 136). The present church was constructed in 1791 and the steeple was added in 1832.
Information from ‘Historic Montrose: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).
