Aberlemno Parish Church Forfar Angus

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Aberlemno Parish Church in Forfar, Angus is a Christian congregation serving the Forfar community and seeking, engaging, and encouraging others through a life-changing Christian journey.

We seek to be a loving, friendly community that worships God, and serves others. We place a high priority on teaching from the Bible and following the example of Jesus.

Our vision is to impact and renew Forfar and beyond with the transforming message of Jesus Christ through words and actions.

Come as you are - we'd love to get to know you.

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Aberlemno Parish Church
Aberlemno
Forfar, Angus DD8 3TE
United Kingdom
Phone: 01241 828 243

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Rev Brian Ramsay
Rev Brian Ramsay
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Aberlemno
Forfar, Angus DD8 3TE
United Kingdom
Phone: 01241 828 243

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Aberlemno Parish Church History

High-quality Class II Pictish cross-slabs at the church site and in the nearby village indicate that Aberlemno is a site of ancient Christian significance, but no record survives of the church until the early thirteenth century. A now lost act of King William from 1202 recorded its grant to an unknow recipient(1) but from c.1242 it was in the hands of the Augustinian canons of Jedburgh Abbey.(2)

The loss of most of the medieval records of Jedburgh Abbey have rendered details of the donor, dates of appropriation and other information concerning the institutional relationships between the monastery and the parish, irrecoverable. The nineteenth-century antiquarian, Alexander Warden, cited (an unreferenced) memorandum of January 1230 which indicated that the church was in the gift of a ‘Mr John’ (3) Warden suggested that this man might have been John Romanus, archdeacon of York, who in 1239 was recommended by the pope to the abbot of Jedburgh for provision to a benefice in the gift of the abbey.

The first secure reference toAberlemno is dated 21 August 1242, when the church was dedicated by the bishop of St Andrews, but no dedicatee is recorded.(4) Since neither parsonage nor vicarage is listed in the accounts of the papal tax-collector Master Boiamund (Bagimond’s Rolls) in the 1270s, it would seem that the whole revenues of the parish had been appropriated to Jedburgh. The church was later assigned for the support of Jedburgh’s dependent cell at Restenneth, but the date of that allocation is unknown. It had not occurred by 1322 when King Robert I issued a general confirmation of Restenneth’s possessions, for it is not listed amongst them.(5)

By the fifteenth century at the latest, however, the abbey had assigned the parsonage revenues of Aberlemno for the support of their dependent cell at Restenneth Priory, for in 1482 one David Stewart ‘pensioner of Rostinoth’ had the benefice with the cure being served by his chaplain, John Lowtholt.(6) The church remained part of Restenneth’s portfolio of lands and churches, which was erected in 1606 into a free barony for Thomas Erskine, viscount Fenton.(7)

A vicarage settlement appears to have been reached subsequently, for the cure was a vicarage perpetual and at the Reformation, held by Mr William Gardin, and valued at £24 with 7 marks stipend allocated for the curate who served in his place, but only worth £16 without corpse presents, pasche fines and other oblations.

From: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?id=158371

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