Abdie Church

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Abdie Ruins St. Magridin's Church - Abdie, Fife - Places of Worship in Scotland | SCHR

The roofless ruins of St. Magridin's church stand to the east of a farm lane on a small knoll, surrounded by a graveyard and boundary wall. The site is at the north west of Lindores Loch, where the loch has silted up and become boggy ground.    Its east end looks over a gentle slope towards wooded and agricultural land.    The church lies east-west and is a long, narrow medieval building. It was built in the 13th century and consecrated in 1242 by Bishop David de Bernham, and then received significant additions in the seventeenth century.   It  was abandoned in 1827  but restored in 1856.    It was eventually replaced by the church at Abdie (site 4674).    It is surrounded by a graveyard in which. in common with most medieval churchyards, the majority of memorials are to the south and east of the church.    A small building built into the boundary wall was a mort-house   which currently contains many carved stones, including 'Lindores Pictish Stone' which was moved to the churchyard in 1970.

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