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Latitude: 57.551 / 57°33'3"N
Longitude: -2.8696 / 2°52'10"W
OS Eastings: 348052
OS Northings: 851541
OS Grid: NJ480515
Mapcode National: GBR M88R.XV4
Mapcode Global: WH7L4.WGPP
Plus Code: 9C9VH42J+94
Entry Name: St Ninian's Church, Lady Hill, Davoch Of Grange
Listing Name: Grange Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Enclosing Wall
Listing Date: 24 March 1988
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 340900
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8707
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200340900
Location: Grange
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Keith and Cullen
Parish: Grange
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1795-6; additions and re-cast, A & W, Elgin, 1888. Plain
rectangular church with 4-bay long S elevation completely
blank N wall, later porch at W gable and vestry at E. Harled,
tooled ashlar margins; tooled rubble additions also with
ashlar dressings.
4 large round-headed windows light S elevation with lattice
-pane glazing and surviving shutter hooks; gallery window at
E; 1795 bellcote at W gable apex and ball finial at E;
local slate roof.
2-storey, single bay porch at W with doorway in N face and
window above; ground and 1st floor windows in W elevation;
2 pane glazing; string course and corniced wallhead.
INTERIOR: re-cast to E; gallery at W with panelled front
(possibly re-used panelling from earlier gallery) supported
by cast-iron columns; organ and pulpit at E end; plain pine
seating and dado; lowered and boarded ceiling.
WALL: church enclosed at N and NW by coped rubble wall;
entrance at NW flanked by simple square gate piers with plain
square caps linked to lower similar end piers by quadrants.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Church sited on mounded, partially moated site formerly
occupied by tower house built by Abbot Thomas of Kinloss
Abbey in 1525, who died there circa 1535. Known as 'Castlehill'
the site was chosen 1795-6 in preference to the earlier church
site because the ground was firm. Earlier church stood in present
burial ground and was reported 'ruinous' in 1795.
Change of Category: B to C(S), 24.3.88
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