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Not much is recorded about this chapel. In the View of the Diocese of Aberdeen[1] it is referred to as the Parish Church of Fervie, "dedicated to St. Fidamnan, Abbot of Icolmkill."

From the charters preserved at Slains, we learn that "a letter of manrent by the Lard of Essilmont is dated 'at the Chapell of Laske' on

Fig. 1321.—St. Adamnan's Chapel. Plan and Interior View, looking East.

the 11th of September 1499."[2] Probably the church was erected during the foregoing century.

  1. Spalding Club, p. 388.
  2. Antiquities of Aberdeen and Banff, Vol. III. p. 147.