Old Parish Church Of Crimond

Heritage listing

Date Added 23/12/2004 Type Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; church Local Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Crimond NGR NK 05227 57573 Coordinates 405227, 857573 — The monument consists of the fragmentary remains of the old parish church of Crimond, and its burial ground. The remains of the church are believed to have been built in the early 15th century, although the single remaining wall exhibits evidence of later alterations, and earlier description of the building suggest it was repaired just after the Reformation. The church may have been founded as early as the 13th century as it was apparently erected into a prebend of Aberdeen Cathedral by Bishop Richard de Potton in 1262 and definitely appears as such in 1437. The church was abandoned when a new church was constructed in 1812, after which it very quickly became completely ruinous; by 1840 the church was reduced to the portion of S wall that still survives. The remains of the church are extremely fragmentary, with the only upstanding fragment a stretch of the S wall, built of random rubble masonry. It measures about 8m in length, 2.3m high and 0.8m in width. The wall incorporates a very unusual square-headed window with cable mouldings on the exterior face. Two very fine armorial panels, probably cut down from the ledger slabs of post-reformation table tombs, have later been built into the ingoes for their protection. To the W of this window is another, smaller and perhaps original, window which is now blocked up. Towards the W end of the wall is a large, round-headed opening, which may have accommodated a memorial, and slightly further W there is the scant remains of a doorway. At the E end of the wall there are the remains of another doorway, on this occasion with a exterior rebate. The gate pie

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.