Glen Tanar Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/11/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Aboyne And Glen Tanar NGR NO 47620 98333 Coordinates 347620, 798333 — 17th century. Crowstepped W gable and remains of foundations survive. Pink and grey granite rubble. Infilled window to W (exterior) Elevation with chamfered reveals; tombstone set into E (interior) Elevation. Rectangular-plan granite rubble boundary wall with rubble coping, datestone to right of iron gate in S wall reading "18.1884". Variety of tombstones. — The old church of Glen Tanar was originally thatched with heather and known as "the Black Chapel of the Moor". Originally Glen Tanar was combined with Inchmarnoch; some time after 1666 Glen Tanar joined with Aboyne, however the church continued to conduct separate services until 1763. The graveyard is supposedly the burial-place of "Byron's Mary", or Mary Robertson, of Ballaterach, which was the farm where Byron stayed. The church bell was a present from William Farquharson and his wife, Ann Gillenders, and was supposedly melted down to make the bell at the present parish church (see separate listing).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.