Old Parish Church and Burial Ground, Boharm

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/03/1988 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Boharm NGR NJ 32126 46439 Coordinates 332126, 846439 — BURIAL GROUND: roughly square rubble walled burial ground enclosing remains of 1618 former parish chruch. 17th, 18th, 19th and subsequent tombstones. RUINS: rubble W gable survives of former church, probably of T-plan form, with ball-finialled apex bellcote (no bell). Portions of E wall substantially remodelled (possibly by William Robertston of Elgin) in earlier 19th century as burial enclosure for families of Arndilly and Auchlunkart who are commemorated by various mural plaques. — Church sites in Boharm Parish have been moved over the centuries. The medieval chapel and burial ground were sited 50 yards N of Cauldwell Castle (Scheduled Monument), 2 miles to SW of present burial ground. In 1618 the parish church was built on present site, to be superseded in 1793 when another parish church was constructed nearer the new centre of the parish after its union with a portion of Dundurcas parish. The 1793 church has in turn been superseded by that at Mulben, the former Free Church. Mural plaques in burial enclosure to MacDowall Grants of Arndilly and Stewart (or Steuart) and Stewart-Gordons of Auchlunkart.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.