Site Represents a site. End Date 1840 Institutional nature Museum, Ecomuseum, Extended Museum, Territorial Museum, Cultural Center, Memory House, e-Museum, etc Building Condition 1 Prim Media 659 Denomination Catholic,Church of Scotland Parish Forgan 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 Forgan Old Parish Church / St Fillan's Parish Church Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Description An account of the resource There is a church recorded at Forgan in the twelfth century. The old parish church at Forgan was appropriated to St Andrews Cathedral Priory for much of the Middle Ages. The church survived the Reformation, and for part of the 1560s had a canon of St Andrews Cathedral as reader. In the 1628 the St Andrews graduate Henry Scrimgeour was appointed minister of Forgan. He was a supporter of Charles I’s changes to the Church of Scotland and fiercely resisted the National Covenant. Scrimgeour was removed from his position as minister in 1639, having apparently declared that the supporters of the Covenant were “taking the crown off the King’s head”. The church underwent a major renovation in the 1770s, and new pews were installed at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In the 1830s the medieval parish church was described as being “situated in a most beautiful and sequestered spot”. Ominously, it was also noted at this time that the location was “very inconvenient for the population in general”. In the early 1840s the parishioners of Forgan moved to a new parish church, closer to the main settlements near the Tay. The old church was abandoned and gradually fell into ruins. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1120 Extent The size or duration of the resource. cm x cm x cm Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 315 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. Corpus of Scottish Medieval Parish Churches, entry for ‘Forgan / Forgrund Parish Church’: https://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/corpusofscottishchurches/site.php?id=158590#TT_button [Accessed February 2024]. Hew Scott, Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae: The Succession of Ministers in Scotland from the Reformation (1925), p. 203. Charles Nairn, ‘Parish of Forgan’ in the New Statistical Account (1845), vol. 9, p. 515. 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). 27/02/2024 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Dante Clementi Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.4225774719067,-2.9001384973526005; 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. Forgan Old Parish Church / St Fillan's Parish Church