Burial Ground And Morthouse, Old Parish Church, Manse Lane, Hatton Of Fintray is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 11 September 1984.
Burial Ground And Morthouse, Old Parish Church, Manse Lane, Hatton Of Fintray
- WRENN ID
- pale-pediment-primrose
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Constituency
- Gordon and Buchan MP: Harriet Cross (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 11 September 1984
- OS grid reference
- NJ 840 165
- Coordinates
- 57.2392, -2.26555
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This burial ground and mort house, dating to 1830, is located on Manse Lane in Hatton of Fintray. The mort house is partly subterranean and constructed of granite, featuring a vaulted interior and an iron door. The lintel bears the date 1830. The structure was built as a protective measure against body snatching, a practice known as resurrectionism.
Local climate
Burial Ground And Morthouse, Old Parish Church, Manse Lane, Hatton Of Fintray receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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