Abernethy Old Kirk, Nethybridge

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Abernethy And Kincardine National Park Cairngorms NGR NJ 00597 21804 Coordinates 300597, 821804 — Late 18th century, substantial alterations and additions, A M Mackenzie; architect. Rectangular church with 1874 rear aisle under catslide roof. Squared tooled rubble S elevation, harl pointed rubble rear, harled gables; tooled granite dressings. Symmetrical 6-bay long S elevation lit by round-headed windows, those in bays and 2 and 5 narrower and former entrances. Small round-headed gable gallery windows, square headed rear aisle fenestration. 2- and 3-light (1874) glazing to front windows; coloured geometric glazing. Shallow crowstepped 1874 porch in centre of W gable; W gable circular apex bellcote (also 1874) corbelled out under small bellcast conical roof. Single storey, 2-bay Minister's room projects at rear; 1874 crowsteps to all gables; slate roof. Interior; simple interior; later 19th century seating laid out in original manner centred on (earlier 20th century) pulpit in centre of S wall. Pointed-headed aisle arcade supported by painted cast-iron columns. Various 19th century mural plaques. Burial ground; Rubble walled burial ground; Pair square tooled granite gate piers with flat caps and pair simple cast-iron gates. Fine collection of 19th century local slate tombstones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church "elegant" in 1794, and in 1835 with a "beautiful seat in the gallery opposite the pulpit for the use of the family of the heritor" (Earl of Seafield). Site probably of considerable antiquity being close to Castle Roy (Scheduled Monument.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.