Flisk Parish Church

Flisk Parish Church

There seems to have been a parish church at Flisk as early as the 1170s. The medieval parish church survived into the late eighteenth century, before eventually being demolished and replaced by a new building constructed ‘near the site of the former’ church in about 1790. It was claimed that at the time of its demolition the medieval church had stood ‘for 500 years’. The new church was praised as ‘a neat edifice’ and had seats for 153 people. In the nineteenth century Flisk Parish Church was described as being ‘beautifully situated on the banks of the Tay’. In the early 1970s the congregation at Flisk became part of the combined parish of Creich, Flisk, and Kilmany. Worship appears to have ceased at Flisk around this date. The church is now roofless, although some conservation work has been undertaken. The churchyard has a number of notable tombstones, many of which predate the rebuilding of 1790.

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I. Cowan, Parishes of Medieval Scotland (1967), p. 67. Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore entry for ‘Flisk Parish Church’. Available at: http://canmore.org.uk/site/31843 Historic Environment Scotland, Canmore entry for ‘St Adrian’s Old Parish Church, Flisk’. Available at: http://canmore.org.uk/site/31850 G. Marshall, ‘Parish of Flisk’, New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, pp. 601, 607. University of St Andrews Library, Records of Flisk Kirk Session, CH2/1545.

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Flisk Parish Church

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