Dunbog Old Parish Church, Dunbog

Dunbog Old Parish Church, Dunbog

Today all that is visible of Dunbog’s old parish church is a small abandoned graveyard near Dunbog House. There was a church on this site from at least the twelfth century through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. For much of the Middle Ages the church was appropriated to Arbroath Abbey (who benefited from much of the parish revenues and controlled the appointment of the vicar). Dunbog old parish church survived the Reformation and is clearly marked on John Ainslie’s late eighteenth-century map of Fife. In the 1790s the church building was described as in ‘pretty good order’. However, in 1803 the congregation moved to a newly built church located a little further away from Dunbog House.

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J. Ainslie, ‘County of Fife’ (1775). NLS, EMS.s.382. Available at: https://maps.nls.uk/joins/695.html. A. Cairns, ‘Parish of Dunbog’, New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, p. 216. I. Cowan, Parishes of Medieval Scotland (1967), p. 51. Dr Greenlaw, ‘Parish of Dunbog’, Old Statistical Account (1792), vol. 4, p. 234. University of St Andrews, ‘Dunbog Parish Church’, Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches. Available at: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?id=158522.

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Dunbog Old Parish Church, Dunbog

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