Churchyard, Strathdon Parish Church, Strathdon

The graveyard at Strathdon Parish Church dates from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries and is located to the south, east, and west of the church. It features coped rubble and harl enclosure walls that also serve as a boundary with the garden of the former manse. Many of the gravestones pre-date the 1853 church and include a variety of moulded apex and obelisk stones, mural monuments, and Egyptian-style mausolea.

Notable features include early stones with relief-carved death emblems, such as a stone in the northwest depicting a primitive grim reaper. There is a rectangular-plan ashlar mausoleum on the west wall, which has gently battered pilastered angles and a raised central bay topped with a pediment and angle acroteria. This mausoleum has a good latticework iron gate and is marked as the 'Burial Place of George Forbes, D D of Blelack and Inverernan 1778-1834'. Early mural monuments on the south elevation of the church include an eroded stone with a winged head above an incised memorial to Donald McSween, a minister of Strathdon, and a re-cut stone memorial from the 1790s for the Farquharson family. To the east, there is a semicircular Candacraig Memorial Garden featuring both mural and free-standing stones.

The site also includes large square-section ashlar gatepiers that flank decorative ironwork gates to the west, as well as two pairs of squat pyramidally-coped ashlar gatepiers that flank arcaded timber gates to the east.