Cabrach Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 - 6 Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Cabrach NGR NJ 38646 26804 Coordinates 338646, 826804 — Dated 1786. Simple rectangular church with symmetrical 4-bay S elevation and entrance in W gable. Roughly harled rubble, tooled rubble and ashlar dressings. 4 square-headed windows in S front with 12-pane glazing and hinges for shutters. Double-leaf plank door in W with gallery window above. Bellcote at E gable apex with shaped cap and ball finial; Banffshire slate roof with stone ridge. Later single bay Minister's room at E gable. INTERIOR: plain interior, re-cast circa 1900. Gallery at W; pulpit fronts semi-circular alcove (probably replacing former E doorway) with moulded surround and painted text. Panelled pulpit with neo-Jacobean detailing reached by short flight stairs with turned balusters to handrail. Simple late 18th century delicate plaster motif in centre in ceiling, surrounding lamphook. Mural memorial dated 1771 (re-set from earlier church). Further 1817 memorial. BURIAL GROUND: rubble walls enclose burial ground. Tooled ashlar piers with shaped caps and ball finial flank carriage entrance; similar piers to pedestrian entrance. Good 18th and 19th century local slate tombstones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Present church replaced that of 1580 on same site. Date on left skewputt. 1771 Mural monument inscribed 'Before this Stone lyes Elizabeth Grant late Spouse to Mr James Gordon Minr. here who died March 2 1771 Aged 46 years and her Two Sons Viz George and John Gordons' Painted coat of arms heads plaque.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.