St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Burial ground, aisle. 1 related planning application.
St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven
- WRENN ID
- guardian-chamber-winter
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Moray
- Constituency
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East MP: Seamus Logan (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Burial ground, aisle
- Address
- St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven, AB56 4DW
- OS grid reference
- NJ 443 656
- Coordinates
- 57.67728, -2.9353
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Peter's Church and Old Burial-Ground in Rathven features a large, irregularly shaped burial ground surrounded by rubble walls topped with a tooled ashlar coping. At the northwest angle, there are cast-iron spearhead railings flanking a simple entrance, which has a pair of slender cast-iron gatepiers and is closed by plain spearhead carriage gates. The burial ground contains various tombstones dating from the 18th century and later. Notably, there is a burial enclosure for the Gordons of Farskan and Nether Buckie, erected in 1799, which incorporates a memorial from 1592.
The Rannas Aisle, dated 1612, was formerly the south aisle of a demolished parish church. It is rectangular and constructed of harl pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. The aisle features a large round-headed arched entrance with chamfered ashlar margins, a concave moulded eaves cornice, and a flush faced slab roof.
Inside, there is a substantial marble memorial to Andrew Hay of Rannas, who died in 1789, along with a single hatchment.
Local climate
St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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