Fetternear, an ancient chapelry and an estate in the S of Chapel of Garioch parish, Aberdeenshire, near the left bank of the Don, 1 mile NNW of Kemnay station. The chapelry was constituted in 1109; its original church was built in the same year; and ruins of that church or of a successor of it, together with its cemetery, still exist. The estate belonged to the bishops of Aberdeen, and, conveyed by the last Roman Catholic bishop to the Leslies of Balquhain, is held now by Charles Stephen Leslie, Esq. (b. 1832; suc. 1870), who owns 8940 acres in the shire, valued at £7388 per annum. Its mansion was originally a summer lodging of the bishops when surveying the canons and priests of the chapelry church, and is now a handsome and commodious modern residence. A Roman Catholic church, St John's, was founded near the site of the ancient church in 1859, but not opened till 1869, and consists of nave, chancel, porch, and belfry, all built of granite, with sandstone dressings.—Ord. Sur., sh. 76, 1874.
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