Site Represents a site. End Date 1810 Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Prim Media 547 Denomination Church of Scotland Parish Balmerino Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Balmerino Old Parish Church, Balmerino Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource The burial ground towards the southern edge of Kirkton of Balmerino reflects the site of the old parish church. According to local legend the parish church moved here from Balmerino Abbey in 1611 because the aristocratic family who then owned the abbey precinct ‘could not bear the noise of the psalms on Sunday’. The ‘Kirk of Balmerinoch’ is clearly marked on the early seventeenth-century map of Fife created by Robert Gordon (where it is shown in a similar position to the surviving burial ground). Around 1811 a new parish church was completed nearer to Bottomcraig and the church at Kirkton of Balmerino was abandoned. By the mid-nineteenth century the old parish church was marked on maps as ‘ruins’. The wider site continued in use as a graveyard – a function it still serves today. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1610? Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 260 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived sacredlandscapesoffife References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. James Fraser, ‘Map of the counties of Fife and Kinross’ (1846). NLS, EMS.b.1.34. Available at: https://maps.nls.uk/counties/rec/7232 Robert Gordon and Timothy Pont, ‘Fyffe Imperfect’ (c.1636-52). NLS, Adv.MS.70.2.10 (Gordon 54). S. Taylor and G. Markus, The Place-Names of Fife (2010), vol. 4, pp. 149-150. J. Thomson, ‘Parish of Balmerino’, New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, p. 593. W. Turnbull, ed., The Chartularies of Balmerino and Lindores (1841), p. 74. Date Submitted Date of submission of the resource. Examples of resources to which a Date Submitted may be relevant are a thesis (submitted to a university department) or an article (submitted to a journal). 08/09/2023 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Natalia Nikitin Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.41204212084651,-3.0384895205497746; Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 02/16/2024 06:18:28 pm Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. Balmerino Old Parish Church, Balmerino