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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 686971
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/686971
NO25SE 3.00 28554 54579
(NO 2855 5458) Church (NAT)
OS 6" map (1927).
NO25SE 3.01 NO 28562 54576 Kirkyard
NO25SE 3.02 NO 28533 54596 Hearse House
NO25SE 3.03 NO 28554 54579 Cross slab
Location formerly entered as NO 2855 5488.
Lintrathen parish church, built in 1802 on the site of a predecessor, dedicated to St Medan (A J Warden 1884) or Madden (D Fraser 1956) which was an independent parsonage in 1274 but had been annexed to Inchmahome Priory (NN50SE 4) by 1431.
Part of a cross with interlacing was found when Dundee Water Commissioners were working near the church.
The Bell of St Medan or Madden was associated with the church, and is said to have been kept by the Durwards in Peel of Lintrathen (? NO25SE 4) until c.1400, when it was transferred to Airlie Castle (NO25SE 11). It was lost in the burning of the castle in 1640 and, though eventually re-discovered, its character was not recognised and it was broken up as scrap metal.
Watson lists Maddan and Madden but not Medan.
NSA 1843 (F Cannan); H Scott 1925; W J Watson 1926; H Scott 1950; I B Cowan 1967.
