Logie Easter Parish Church
Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Logie Easter Parish Church
Classification Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Marybank, Former Logie Easter Parish Church
Canmore ID 14581
Site Number NH77NW 9
NGR NH 74982 76123
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Logie Easter
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH77NW 9 7498 7612.
(NH 7498 7612) Church (NAT) (In Ruins) on Site of Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
At Marybank there is a ruined church. Its walls are practically intact, with the exception of the south wall, which is broken down.
The body of the church is a somewhat narrow parallel-ogram, from the northern side of which projects a gabled wing. The church is thought to be pre-Reformation, although the north wing appears to be of considerably later date than the rest of the church. The unenclosed grave- yard contains many stones. One of them is dated 1593, but the date is not thought to be original.
ISSFC 1902.
A post-Reformation church on the site of a pre- Reformation chapel. The church has been in disuse since 1767, but the surrounding burial ground is still in use.
Name Book 1873.
This church is as generally described above, but only the W and N gables now stand to roof height, ie. c.6.0m. The other walls vary in height from 0.5 to 2.0m, and are up to 0.8m thick.
About a dozen grave slabs can still be seen in the burial ground, but none have legible dates.
Visited by OS (R D L) 19 May 1963.
This was the original LOGIE EASTER PARISH CHURCH, which was replaced as the Parish Church around 1818 by the building of the church at NH77NE 6. This in turn was replaced as Parish Church by the church at NH77NE 8 (former United Free Church). NH77NE 8 remains the present LOGIE EASTER PARISH CHURCH.
Field Visit (November 1978)
Marybank, Church NH 749 761 NH77NW 9
The roofless shell of this T-plan church stands 200m SE of Marybank. Built of mortared rubble, it survives to gable height on the N and W; the chamfered windows indicate a 17th century date for the church but some of the tombstones in the surrounding graveyard appear to be of earlier date.
RCAHMS 1979, visited November 1978
(Name Book, Ross-shire, no. 25, p. 29; Transactions of the Inverness Scientific Society and Field Club, v 1895-9, 360-1)
