Burial Ground, Michael Kirk, Gordonstoun

MICHAEL KIRK: dated 1705, restored and interior refurbished,

John Kinross, 1900-01. Gothic. Ashlar. Small 3-bay church

with large pointed windows with elaborate Y-tracery in E and

W gables. Centre S door with flanking windows; reveals with

half-round and fillet moulding decorated with stairs and

roses; flanking windows with Y-tracery and deeply moulded

architraves; continuous string course dropped under cills.

Square clear glass quarries; flat moulded skews; steeply

pitched West Highland slate roof with stone ridge and apex

urns.

INTERIOR: panelled throughout, 1900-01. Various mural

memorials including that to Sir Robert Gordon, died 1704

(possibly carved by John Faid, Elgin), and previous and

subsequent Gordons and Gordon Cummings. Chequered black and

white marble floor.

BURIAL GROUND: surrounded by simple stone walls with low,

coped, square dressed rubble gatepiers to E and W entrances;

western gatepiers have inset re-used 17th century carved

detailing.

CROSS: market cross type; tall, rectangular shaft with

chamfered and stopped angles; incised hammer mark; hole

probably for jougs; small star shaped finial with centre

hole; stands on simple square stone plinth.