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Mausoleum, Mountblairy House

A Category B Listed Building in Banff and District, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.5863 / 57°35'10"N

Longitude: -2.519 / 2°31'8"W

OS Eastings: 369066

OS Northings: 855261

OS Grid: NJ690552

Mapcode National: GBR N84N.W63

Mapcode Global: WH8M8.8LQ3

Plus Code: 9C9VHFPJ+G9

Entry Name: Mausoleum, Mountblairy House

Listing Name: Mountblairy Mausoleum with Memorial, Boundary Walls and Railings

Listing Date: 4 March 1994

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 338316

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB6653

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200338316

Location: Alvah

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Banff and District

Parish: Alvah

Traditional County: Banffshire

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Description

Circa 1860. Possibly A and W Reid of Elgin. Single storey, rectangular plan mausoleum, orientated E-W with small tower adjoining SE corner. Sited on raised terrace above River Deveron. Squared and snecked rubble, polished ashlar dressings; base course, eaves course, stepped, coped buttresses, hoodmoulds to major openings.

E ELEVATION: steps to pointed-arch doorway with boarded door, moulded surround with nook-shafts. Trefoil window to gablehead. Buttress to right, 3-stage octagonal ashlar tower to left; 1st stage with gabled Gothic panels, surmounted by set-off 2nd stage and blind arcaded 3rd stage with colonettes and cornice, polygonal ashlar roof with finial and weathervane.

W ELEVATION: 3-light Gothic window, louvred diamond opening to gablehead above.

N AND S ELEVATIONS: 5 blind bays divided by buttresses. Tower to S.

Ashlar slabs to steeply pitched roof, ashlar coped skews with gablet skewputts, cross finials to gables. Ventilator to centre ridge.

MEMORIAL: to E, below terrace, to Fredrick de le Mare Murison 1842-1911. Cruciform, ashlar, raised on 2 steps.

RETAINING WALLS: low ashlar coped walls with cast-iron railings enclosing terrace to E.

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