Dairsie Old Parish Church Traditional Cache
Dairsie Old Parish Church
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A quick look round this pretty church
This cache has been set for the Lang Spoon Stirs Again Event please do not find or log prior to Friday 3rd April 2009.
Some History
Located on the north bank of the River Eden, a half-mile (1 km) south of Dairsie, is the Old Dairsie Parish Church (also known as St. Mary's Church). Built by John Spottiswoode, Archbishop of St. Andrews (1565 - 1639), who lived in the adjacent Dairsie Castle, the church is an oblong ashlar building with an octagonal bell-tower. It is exceptional for a rural church, mixing the simple Classical style with Renaissance and Post-Reformation Gothic.
The original flat lead roof was replaced a pitched slate roof in 1794 and the windows were restored in the late 1830s. The church closed for worship in 1966.
A church was first recorded on this site in 1183 and it was probably rebuilt c.1300, when it was granted to the Convent of St Andrews.
If you peer over the wall to the newley restored Dairsie Castle (private residence) you will see some interesting statues erected in the grounds.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
va pbeare orarngu vil (fbeel)
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