Remains of Old Parish Church, Aberlour

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/11/1987 Supplementary Information Updated 13/12/2018 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Aberlour NGR NJ 26362 42749 Coordinates 326362, 842749 — Large irregularly shaped walled burial ground. Rubble walls, containing 17th and 18th century mural monuments; later walls at E, W and S mainly dating from 1869 (A and W Reid, Elgin). Square tooled ashlar piers flank entrance from lane (by Lour Burn) with shallow pyramidal caps and pair spearhead cast-iron gates. Flight of steps flanked at top and bottom by similar piers lead from main road, also with cast-iron spearhead gates and similar flanking railings. ST DROSTAN'S CHURCH: Ivy clad ruin of S transept of former (?medieval) church stands within burial ground. MACPHERSON GRANT MAUSOLEUM: circa 1877, style of Alexander Ross or A and W Reid; Gothic; tall, tooled and polished ashlar buttressed rectangular mausoleum with pointed-headed entrance in centre S gable; nookshafts, hoodmould with carved stops, double leaf plank doors with decorative cast-iron hinges. Cusped niche above coat of arms. Apex crosses, saw-toothed skews, steeply pitched slate roof. — Interesting mural monuments survive, one dated 1663; 1664 to Innes' of Kinermonie and another dated 1761 to Anderson family of Mudhouse, Craigellachie. Parish Church of St Drostan replaced in 1812 by predecessor of present parish church, sited within Aberlour Burgh, established 1812. N portion of burial ground wall marks boundary between parish and burgh. Aberlour old parish manse demolished in 1869 and site incorporated in burial ground. Miss Macpherson Grant of Aberlour House died aged 43 in 1877.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.