Macpherson Grant Mausoleum, Burial Ground, Aberlour is a Grade B listed building in the Moray local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 November 1987.

Macpherson Grant Mausoleum, Burial Ground, Aberlour

WRENN ID
solitary-passage-wind
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Moray
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 November 1987
OS grid reference
NJ 263 427
Coordinates
57.46903, -3.22957
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The remains of the Old Parish Church in Aberlour consist of a large, irregularly shaped walled burial ground with rubble walls. Inside, there are 17th and 18th century mural monuments, while the later walls to the east, west, and south mainly date from 1869, designed by A and W Reid of Elgin.

The entrance from the lane by Lour Burn is flanked by square, tooled ashlar piers topped with shallow pyramidal caps, and features a pair of spearhead cast-iron gates. A flight of steps, also flanked by similar piers, leads from the main road and includes cast-iron spearhead gates and matching railings.

Within the burial ground, the ivy-clad ruin of the south transept of a former medieval church can be found.

Additionally, the Macpherson Grant Mausoleum, built around 1877 in the style of Alexander Ross or A and W Reid, is a Gothic structure. It features a tall, tooled and polished ashlar buttressed rectangular design with a pointed-headed entrance in the center of the south gable. The mausoleum includes nookshafts, a hoodmould with carved stops, and double leaf plank doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Above the coat of arms is a cusped niche, and the structure is topped with apex crosses, saw-toothed skews, and a steeply pitched slate roof.

Local climate

Macpherson Grant Mausoleum, Burial Ground, Aberlour 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 lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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