Churchyard, Church, Kirkton Of Glenbuchat

This is a 17th-century and later graveyard enclosure, situated at Kirkton of Glenbuchat. It is rectangular in shape, with flat-coped rubble walls, and contains a variety of simple, moulded apex stones, obelisk-style stones, and a World War I memorial. The enclosure incorporates the category A listed Old Parish Church.

The graveyard contains civilian memorials, with the earliest stone dated 1686. 19th-century stones include a plain classical stone with flanking columns commemorating Charlotte Lindsay of Milltown, Glenbuchat, who died in 1836, a semicircular-pedimented stone with incised detail for William Brodie, Gamekeeper at Backies, who died in 1839, and a similar stone with relief-carved detail for Peter Davidson, formerly a merchant in Belnaboth, who died on December 24, 1842. A segmental-headed, relief-carved stone commemorates Private P Dow of The Cameronians (SCO RTF), who died on June 21, 1919. The entrance is marked by pyramidally-coped, square-section ashlar gatepiers flanking a two-leaf wrought iron gate.

The graveyard has been in continuous use since the 17th century and is an important feature of the original Kirkton of Glenbuchat settlement, as well as the wider Glen. It surrounds the church on three sides, and is bordered by the former manse and glebelands to the south. During the later years of the 20th century, the western boundary wall was removed and rebuilt, which resulted in the isolation of two former mural monuments. The graveyard forms a group with the Old Parish Church and Manse.