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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
Also known as: Mountblairy House, Mausoleum
ID on this website: 200338316
Location: Alvah
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Parish: Alvah
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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