Ardallie Kirk
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Ardallie Kirk
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 17 Mar 2010
Ardallie Kirk was built as a chapel of ease for the congregation of the quoad sacra parish of Ardallie, part of the parish of Old Deer. Designed by William Clarke in 1857, it is a category 'B' listed building, but is no longer in use as a kirk. Next door to it is the manse, also designed by William Clarke, in 1859. It too is listed as part of the group including the kirk. The first minister of Ardallie, appointed in 1858 to its predecessor mission, was William Burgess (no relation to me!), born in Rathven in Banffshire in 1829. He took up the post in 1862 and remained in the charge until his death in 1889. Coincidentally, Peter Mitchell's Diary in the Press and Journal of 1 May 2009 reports that the present occupants of the Manse discovered in a loft letters written in the 1930s to the Diarist's uncle, the son of Charles Macdonald, a later incumbent of Ardallie. The full story is at http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1190485
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Image Location
Latitude
57.441772
Longitude
-1.98849