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Tyrie, Parish Church, Old Parish Church

Church (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Tyrie, Parish Church, Old Parish Church

Classification Church (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Tyrie, Parish Church Of St Andrew

Canmore ID 20826

Site Number NJ96SW 17

NGR NJ 93009 63110

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Aberdeenshire
  • Parish Tyrie
  • Former Region Grampian
  • Former District Banff And Buchan
  • Former County Aberdeenshire

Archaeology Notes

NJ96SW 17.00 93009 63110

NJ96SW 17.01 92976 63101 Churchyard

For discovery of Pictish symbol stone, see NJ96SW 1.

For adjacent manse and war memorial, see NJ96SW 52 and NJ96SW 53 respectively.

See also NJ96SW 1 and NJ96SW 9.

The site of the old parish church of Tyrie, under the NE corner of which was found a Pictish symbol stone (NJ96SW 1), is obscure.

Macfarlane (Macfarlane 1908) suggested that it lay about half a mile west of Tyrie House, i.e. in the vicinity of the present church. (A religious house is traditionally believed to have existed near the present church - NSA 1845 ).

In 1870, however, (ONB 1870) the tradition was that it lay a little east of Tyrie Mains.

Macfarlane understood it to be the oldest church in the diocese, built before John Knox was born (1505), and he described it as being '... very short and high walled like a chappell'. The oldest pews were dated '1598' (NSA 1845) and Scott (H Scott et al 1916-28) states that there was a reader there in 1567.

The Old Statistical Account (OSA 1793) mentions that it was formerly known as the 'White Kirk of Buchan' and was believed to have been built c 1004, but that no records of it existed.

W Macfarlane 1908; Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) 1870; OSA 1793; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845;

H Scott et al 1916-28.

(Present church). 1800; interior recast, late additions.

G Hay 1957.

The old parish church of Tyrie was almost certainly in the vicinity of the present church as Mr Bell (Mr G L Bell, Tyrie Mains, Pitsligo, Aberdeen) sited Tyrie House at NJ 936 632, approximately half a mile east of the present church (see Macfarlane 1908).

In the graveyard adjacent to the west gable of the present church, at NJ 9298 6310, is a vague oblong platform, possibly the site of an earlier structure. Several gravestones, undecipherable but clearly pre-19th century (the present church was built in 1800), lie in the graveyard.

Visited by OS (NKB) 8 March 1967.

Architecture Notes

Tyrie, Parish Church.

Plans: NMRS

F.A.M MacDonald Collection c.1927 - 3 sheets plans

- 4 sheets plans of church and offices.

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