Remains of Old Parish Church, Aberlour is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987. Burial ground.
Remains of Old Parish Church, Aberlour
- WRENN ID
- noble-cinder-gorse
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 November 1987
- Type
- Burial ground
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Large irregularly shaped walled burial ground. Rubble walls,
containing 17th and 18th century mural monuments; later walls
at E, W and S mainly dating from 1869 (A and W Reid, Elgin).
Square tooled ashlar piers flank entrance from lane (by Lour
Burn) with shallow pyramidal caps and pair spearhead
cast-iron gates. Flight of steps flanked at top and bottom by
similar piers lead from main road, also with cast-iron
spearhead gates and similar flanking railings.
ST DROSTAN'S CHURCH: Ivy clad ruin of S transept of former
(?medieval) church stands within burial ground.
MACPHERSON GRANT MAUSOLEUM: circa 1877, style of Alexander
Ross or A and W Reid; Gothic; tall, tooled and polished
ashlar buttressed rectangular mausoleum with pointed-headed
entrance in centre S gable; nookshafts, hoodmould with carved
stops, double leaf plank doors with decorative cast-iron
hinges. Cusped niche above coat of arms. Apex crosses,
saw-toothed skews, steeply pitched slate roof.
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