Logie Wester
Associated Chapels: (none known)
Parish Church: OS Ref: NGR NH 535540 H.E.S. No: NH55SW 31 Dedication: St Bridget
The parish of Logie Wester rises gradually from the banks of the Connon and the Firth of Cromarty to the ridge of the Mulby, the lower part being generally cultivated, and the upper waste.The church stood on the right bank of the Connon at a place anciently known as Logyreyth or Logywreid, where its ruins stood at the end of the 19th-century just north of Conan House. The graveyard is still there to this day.
Also known as Logiebride (which reveals the church's dedication to St Bridget) or Locvinethereth, the parsonage may have been a prebend of Ross by 1227, when its holder could have been one of the undesignated canons subscribing to an episcopal agreement. Later, its garbal (rectory) teinds were assigned to the prebend of the archdeacon of Ross, (along with those of Fodderty, Killearnan and Lumlair), by Robert (I), bishop of Ross (1236 x 38). On the re-erection of the chapter of Ross in 1255/6, Lumlair and Logie-Wester were now disjoined from the archdeacon, the garbal teinds of Logie-Wester being now conjoined with those of Urquhart, (and the 'quarter kirks' of Cromarty and Rosemarkie), to form the prebend of the Treasurer of Ross. A vicarage had been erected by 1227 to provide for the needs of the parish, it being conjoined with that of Urquhart by 1498, while the joint parsonage teinds remained with the Treasurer.
This parish was united with that of Urquhard about the year 1669 to form what was known as the parish of Ferintosh.
