Lintrathen Parish Church
Church (19th Century) (1802)
Site Name Lintrathen Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century) (1802)
Alternative Name(s) Lintrathen Church; Parish Kirk
Canmore ID 31069
Site Number NO25SE 3
NGR NO 28554 54579
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/31069
- Council Angus
- Parish Lintrathen
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
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.
Field Visit (9 September 1970)
No further information.
Visited by OS (RD) 9 September 1970
Note (1984)
Lintrathen, Parish Church and Burial-ground NO 285 545 NO25SE 3
There are no visible remains of the medieval parish church of Lintrathen. The present church was built in 1802 upon the site of its predecessor, which was described in the late 18th century as 'an old, dark, disproportioned fabrick, built at two different periods'; Before 1884 'a fragment of a sculptured cross' (now lost) was found 'near the church'.
RCAHMS 1984
(Stat. Acct, xiii, 1794, 566; NSA, xi, Forfar, 640; Jervise 1875-9, i, 279-80; Warden 1880-85, iv, 207-8; Hay 1957, 246; Cowan 1967, 133; RCAHMS 1983, p. 21, no. 152).
Reference (1990)
A fragment of a celtic cross slab is built into the church wall, just outside the door which leads to the vestry, just above head height on the SW corner of the church.
The stone is a narrow edge or top of a cross slab (5cm by 30cm), carved out of a very greyish piece of Old Red Sandstone, and bears a single row of interlace which occupies its width.
It would appear to be part of a 9th century cross slab.
Sponsor: Angus District Museums.
N K Atkinson 1990.
External Reference
EXTERNAL REFERENCE
Scottish Records Office
Account for repairs to the church.
1752 GD16/46/57
Account of money for repair of church and manse.
N.D. (17th c.) GD16/46/50
Repairs and maintenance of church and manse. Receipts, accounts and other papers.
1825-1876 GD16/46/93
(Undated) informaton in NMRS.
