Old Parish Church And Burial-Ground, Carrington

This is an early 18th-century mausoleum located within the burial ground at Carrington, built on the site of the former parish church, originally founded in 1243. It was constructed for Sir John Ramsay of Whitehill. The mausoleum is a single-story, rectangular building with a single bay, constructed from coursed, droved pink sandstone rubble with polished grey sandstone dressings. It has a moulded eaves cornice and long and short quoins.

The main, or southwest, elevation is symmetrical and features a rusticated, basket-arched doorway at the center of the ground floor, with a keystone and impost details. A boarded timber door with iron studs is set within the doorway. Above the doorway, set into the gablehead, is a tripartite window. A deeply chamfered blind opening is centrally positioned beneath the window, flanked by grilled openings.

The southeast elevation is also symmetrical and contains mural tablets dedicated to the Ramsay family. A mural tablet is positioned off-center to the left on the northeast elevation, accompanied by a grilled opening with raised margins set in the gablehead. The northwest elevation is blank.

The roof is covered with purple-grey replacement slate, with a lead ridge, and incorporates coped stone skews. The interior was not inspected in 1998.

To the southeast of the mausoleum is a Ramsay family enclosure, containing graves, with the first burial of Sir John Ramsay in 1715. Various other 18th-century gravestones are also present. A small, ruined rubble burial aisle is situated to the south of the Whitehill Aisle. Polished sandstone gatepiers mark the entrance to the burial ground on the southeast side, and are connected by rubble walls with rubble coping. A stone stepped stile is built into the wall to the right of the right-hand gatepier.