Old Parish Church and Churchyard, Inveravon

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/11/1987 Supplementary Information Updated 29/05/2024 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Inveravon NGR NJ 18287 37599 Coordinates 318287, 837599 — Inveravon Parish Church is a simple rectangular planned parish church dating to 1806 incorporating some medieval fabric in south wall and with later remodelled by A Marshall Mackenzie, Aberdeen in 1876. The earliest mention of a church is from 1108 when it was dedicated to St Peter, although the Pictish sculpture here shows it has older origins. The church sits within a burial ground situated on a secluded bluff, above the south-eastern bank of the River Spey. Church A simple rectangular building with a corniced birdcage bellcote on the west gable with a ball finial. It is harled with tooled granite margins and dressings and later dressings from the 1876 remodelling are of tooled ashlar sandstone. The roofs are slated. There are four symmetrical round-headed windows in south elevation with Y-shaped timber tracery inserted in 1876. This wall incorporates masonry from north wall of the earlier medieval church. The north elevation has three pointed-headed hoodmoulded windows and a gabled entrance porch in a gothic-style, again added in 1876, together with a single storey, 2-bay Minister s room at the west gable, with shouldered lintel to doorway and simple bipartite with lattice-pane glazing. The east gable has a round-headed with lattice-pane glazed fanlight with sexfoil window above, all from the 1876 remodelling. Interior: The interior originally had a pulpit mid-way along the south wall and a gallery at either end. The remodelling in 1876 saw the removal of the western gallery which allowed the interior to be realigned, with the liturgical furniture moved to the current location at

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.