Burial Ground, Abernethy Parish Church, Nethybridge is a Grade C listed building in the Cairngorms National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.

Burial Ground, Abernethy Parish Church, Nethybridge

WRENN ID
waning-gravel-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Cairngorms National Park
Constituency
Moray West, Nairn and Strathspey MP: Graham Leadbitter (SNP)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 October 1971
Type
Church
Address
Burial Ground, Abernethy Parish Church, Nethybridge, PH25 3ED
OS grid reference
NJ 006 217
Coordinates
57.2759, -3.65011
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Burial Ground at Abernethy Parish Church in Nethybridge dates from the late 18th century and has undergone substantial alterations and additions, with the architect being A M Mackenzie. The church is a rectangular structure featuring a rear aisle added in 1874, which has a catslide roof. The southern elevation is made of squared tooled rubble, while the rear is finished with harl pointed rubble and harled gables, accented by tooled granite dressings.

The symmetrical six-bay long southern elevation is illuminated by round-headed windows, with the windows in bays two and five being narrower and originally serving as entrances. There are small round-headed gable gallery windows and square-headed windows in the rear aisle. The front windows have 2- and 3-light glazing from 1874, featuring coloured geometric patterns. A shallow crowstepped porch, also from 1874, is located at the center of the west gable, which includes a circular apex bellcote that is corbelled out beneath a small bellcast conical roof.

The church is a single-storey building with a two-bay Minister's room projecting at the rear, and all gables feature crowsteps from 1874, topped with a slate roof. Inside, the church has a simple layout with later 19th-century seating arranged in the original manner, centered on an earlier 20th-century pulpit located on the southern wall. The pointed-headed aisle arcade is supported by painted cast-iron columns, and there are various 19th-century mural plaques displayed.

The burial ground is enclosed by rubble walls and features a pair of square tooled granite gate piers with flat caps, along with a pair of simple cast-iron gates. It contains a fine collection of 19th-century local slate tombstones.

Local climate

Burial Ground, Abernethy Parish Church, Nethybridge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 67 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 51 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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