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Inchaffray Abbey

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178: 33: 229: 41: 80: 585: 71:. The only traces now visible are an earth mound and some walls on rising ground which once (before drainage) formed an island where the abbey once stood (the surrounding marshes known for eels). 605: 600: 580: 565: 174:. The details of the earlier establishments are not certain, but a church dedicated to John the Evangelist is attested in about 1190. The priory became an abbey in 1221. 610: 135:
erected the priory in 1200 in memory of their first-born son Gilchrist, was buried there in 1198. The old religious community was absorbed by the new foundation.
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By 1561 Inchaffrey's fortunes had declined, its income being assessed at £667, third lowest of the Augustinian abbeys in Scotland included in the levy. With the
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A priory was created on the site of an existing ecclesiastical establishment of a group of clerics known as "the brethren of St John of Strathearn".
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was taken as a translation, e.g. "Sancti Johannis evangeliste de Inchefrren" and "sancto Johanni apostolo de Insula Misserum".
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Today a single gable-end wall stands in private property, although it is visible from the road. The ruins are designated a
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under way, Inchaffray had been turned into a secular lordship for a member of the Drummond family in 1556.
116:, refers to the place "qui uocatur lingua Scottica Inche Affren" (="which is called in the Gaelic language 245: 237: 291: 264: 260: 400: 177: 308: 275:. Much of what remained of the abbey was destroyed in 1816 when a road was driven across the site. 194: 143: 508:: "Inchaffrey Abbey: Excavation and Research 1987" by Gordon Ewart et al., pp. 469–516. 518: 279: 249: 113: 496: 488: 253: 222: 32: 442: 213:. In time the abbey's lands and dependent churches stretched across Scotland, as far away as 272: 56: 228: 210: 186: 87: 559: 331: 182: 171: 163: 465:
Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom
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Laurence Oliphant, who came from a notable Strathearn family, was killed at the
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Abbey as it is today. This taken from the reverse angle of the above sketch.
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Reprinted with an introduction by Simon Taylor, Birlinn, Edinburgh, 2004.
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Seal of the abbot of Inchaffray. The abbot is either Innocent or Nicholas.
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at Inchaffray on 5 October 1601. The property later passed to the
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Lindsay, William Alexander, & Thomson, John Maitland, (eds.)
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of real income was assessed on all religious houses to fund a
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Christian monasteries established in the 13th century
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from Inchaffray Abbey, late 13th century, now in the
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and his first known wife Maud d'Aubigny, daughter of
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in the south. The abbey ordered the digging of the
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In 1275 a 7: 428:, vol. 13 (Edinburgh, 1969), p. 879. 244:to bless the Scots army before the 120:") and comparative usage shows that 576:Augustinian monasteries in Scotland 25: 166:of Strogeith, Saint Makkessog of 399:Sim, Philip (24 October 2018). 146:, the abbey was granted to the 51:was situated by the village of 571:Listed monasteries in Scotland 297:Malise, 6th Earl of Strathearn 1: 439:Historic Environment Scotland 596:History of Perth and Kinross 240:carried the relics of Saint 332:"Inchaffray Abbey", Canmore 129:Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn 627: 388:British Museum Collection 133:William d'Aubigny (Brito) 591:1556 disestablishments 519:Gazetteer for Scotland 483:Charters of Inchaffray 463:Cokayne, G.E. 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Index

Inchaffray


Madderty
Perth
Crieff
Strathearn
Scotland

Folk etymology
Gaelic
Latin
Bishop of Dunblane
Gilbert, Earl of Strathearn
William d'Aubigny (Brito)
Virgin Mary
John the Evangelist
Augustinians
Scone Abbey
Saint Cathan
Ethernan
Saint Patrick
Auchterarder
Kinkell

seals
British Museum
Earls of Strathearn
tithe
crusade

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