Saints in Scottish Place-Names
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Fordyce, parish
Grid reference
NJ 555 638 (accurate position)
Six-figure easting & northing
355500 863800
Latitude
57.66213584797424
Longitude
-2.745913397644245
Nearby places
St Talorgan's Church, Fordyce (0 miles)
St Tarquin's Well, Fordyce (0.12 miles)
St John's Church, Episcopal, Fordyce (2.32 miles)
St Columba's Chapel, Fordyce (2.32 miles)
St Comb's Well, Portsoy, Fordyce (2.64 miles)
Object Classification
Parish (extant in 1975)
Is linear feature?
No
Relationships with other places
Contains St Columba's Chapel, Fordyce
Contains St Comb's Well, Portsoy, Fordyce
Contains St Comb's Well, Portsoy, Fordyce
Contains St John's Church, Episcopal, Fordyce
Contains St John's Well, Ordiquhill
Contains St Tarquin's Well, Fordyce
Parish details
Fordyce
Parish TLA
FRC
County
Banffshire
Medieval diocese
Aberdeen
Parish notes
The church, of which Cullen CLN, Deskford DSK & Ordiquhill ORD were pendicles, was a common church of the canons of Aberdeen cathedral before 1272 and so continued. Both parsonage & vicarage were annexed, the church itself being served by a vicar pensioner and its pendicles by curates. (Abdn. Reg. i, 29-30, 74-5, 82; ii, 384; GRH Papal Bulls no.70; Ass. 385, 385v). Cowan 1967, 68. Fordyce BNF - St Colm’s Fair, Forbes, 1872, 306-7. Also a chapel at Aird, Fordyce bore his name ACDS-NS, 44. This is presumably the same as ‘the chapel & well named after Columba’ in Portsoy, which MacKinlay mistakenly lists as separate. See also Portsoy below. [Portsoy, Fordyce BNF - a chapel & well named after Columba. ACDS-NS, 44. MacKinlay calls Portsoy a parish, but it is in fact in Fordyce - this must be the same chapel that he mentions as being at Aird in Fordyce - which is in fact right on outskirts of Portsoy.] Chruch dedicated to ‘Talaricanus’, celebrated Abdn. Mart.. Oct. 30, [from early 16th c. - see Forbes Kalendars xxxiv & PSAS ii] which says that he is culted ‘apud ecclesiam de Fordis’ (Forbes 136). The Abdn. Brev.mentions only one specific place connected with him : ‘patronus de Fridressor[um]’ (fo.cxxxiv verso). It has him coming from Ireland (fo.cxxxiv verso), and states that there are churches dedicated to him in dioceses of Aberdeen, Moray & Ross (cxxxv recto). Note that there was a ‘New Summaruff’s Fair’ held in parish. See ACDS-NS, 176.
Names
1 head-name linked to this place ?Fordyce
This is not a hagiotoponym.Head name
Fordyce
Place
Fordyce, parish
Certainty that this name applies to this place
Certain
The status of this name is
Current
Is this a current OS form? ?
No
Is this the original referent of the place?
No
Is the association of this name to this object hypothetical?
No
Fordys 1272, Aberdeen Reg.
Historic formFordys This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameFordyce PlaceFordyce, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen Reg., i. 29 Date of citation1272 x 1273 Feature named in sourceecclesiam de |
Source code
Aberdeen Reg.
Source title
Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis
Volume
2 vols.
Year
1845
Fordys 1344, Aberdeen Reg.
Historic formFordys This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameFordyce PlaceFordyce, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen Reg., i, 74-5 Date of citation1344 x 1344 Feature named in sourceecclesia de |
Source code
Aberdeen Reg.
Source title
Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis
Volume
2 vols.
Year
1845
Fordys 1344, Aberdeen Reg.
Historic formFordys This is not a hagiotoponym. Head nameFordyce PlaceFordyce, parish Certainty that this name applies to this placeCertain SourceAberdeen Reg., i, 75 Date of citation1344 x 1344 Feature named in sourceecclesiam de |
Source code
Aberdeen Reg.
Source title
Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis
Volume
2 vols.
Year
1845