fetternear in a sentence
- He was born in Fetternear, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1874.
- The lands of Fetternear belonged to the church from at least the twelfth century.
- Most of the crofts were built on land claimed by Col . Charles Leslie of Balquhain and Fetternear.
- The bishop s palace at Fetternear was situated in what was, in medieval times, a separate parish.
- Given that the earlier charters mention the existence of a manor at Fetternear, Bishop Alexander must have been responsible for rebuilding the palace.
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- Boece said that Bishop Alexander completed the palaces at Aberdeen and Fetternear despite the distractions caused by the First War of Scottish Independence against England.
- To date the project has concentrated on the site of Fetternear in the medieval diocese of Aberdeen and on Kinneddar in the diocese of Moray.
- A banner of the Holy Blood Confraternity made at this time, the " Fetternear banner " is kept at the National Museum of Scotland.
- Visitors to Bennachie can explore the Colony, including the remains of a croft which was excavated as part of the Fetternear Research Project in 1999.
- However there are few documentary references to the bishop s palace, although the name of Fetternear ( in various spellings ) does occur in medieval charters.
- In an architectural history of the post-medieval mansion at Fetternear, H . Gordon Slade mentioned that very little of the bishop s palace remained visible above ground.
- The excavations at Fetternear done by SEPP have established that the visible remains of the foundations observed by Slade were heavily remodelled in the late nineteenth century, by one of the Leslie lairds of Balquhain and Fetternear.
- The excavations at Fetternear done by SEPP have established that the visible remains of the foundations observed by Slade were heavily remodelled in the late nineteenth century, by one of the Leslie lairds of Balquhain and Fetternear.
- Given that very little scholarly attention had been given to the medieval bishop s palace of Fetternear, the late Nicholas Bogdan, of the Scottish Castles Survey, and Penelope ( Penny ) Dransart, of the University of Wales, Lampeter, founded the Scottish Episcopal Palaces Project ( SEPP ) in 1995.
- Fetternear which became the home of the Leslies of Balquhain, Wardes, and Warthill includes the remains of a 14th-century palace, home of Bishop Alexander Kininmund who, in 1320, drafted the Declaration of Arbroath, the letter sent to Pope John XXII in Avignon declaring that the Scots would never be subjected to English rule.