Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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St Serf's Church, Creich FIF
Grid reference
NO 326 213 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
332600 721300
Latitude
56.37927280664023
Longitude
-3.0915294193608425
County
Fife
Nearby places
Creich, parish FIF (0 miles)
Flisk, parish (1.14 miles)
Holy Trinity Church, Moonzie (2.41 miles)
Moonzie, parish (2.41 miles)
Abbey of St Mary and St Edward, Balmerino (2.85 miles)
Object Classification
Ecclesiastical
Is linear feature?
No
Notes
The parish church of Creich in Fife is dedicated to St Serf, not to St Devenic. Devenic was the patron saint of Creich in Sutherland, and was mistakenly identified as the patron of Creich in Fife by the RCAHMS Fife survey.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Ecclesia Sancti Servani
Head name
Ecclesia Sancti Servani
Place
St Serf's Church, Creich FIF
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Obsolete
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
Yes
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
ecclesie sancti Seruani 1538, NAS
Historic formecclesie sancti Seruani Head nameEcclesia Sancti Servani PlaceSt Serf's Church, Creich FIF SourceNAS, PS1/12, fo. 46v |
Source code
NAS
Source title
National Archives
Saints in this place-name
Serf (ns) (certain)
Serf of Culross (certain)
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