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Burial Ground, St Michael's Roman Catholic Chapel, Tomintoul

A Category B Listed Building in Speyside Glenlivet, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.2496 / 57°14'58"N

Longitude: -3.3777 / 3°22'39"W

OS Eastings: 316965

OS Northings: 818496

OS Grid: NJ169184

Mapcode National: GBR L90K.KFN

Mapcode Global: WH6LB.21TQ

Plus Code: 9C9R6JXC+RW

Entry Name: Burial Ground, St Michael's Roman Catholic Chapel, Tomintoul

Listing Name: Tomintoul, Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady and St Michael (Incorporating Presbytery) and Burial Ground

Listing Date: 22 February 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 341159

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB8929

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200341159

Location: Kirkmichael (Moray)

County: Moray

Electoral Ward: Speyside Glenlivet

Parish: Kirkmichael (Moray)

Traditional County: Banffshire

Tagged with: Cemetery

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Description

George Mathewson, Dundee, dated 1837. Later alterations.
Cruciform Gothic church. Harled with granite margins and
dressings. Orientated E/W with main entrance in W gable, now
re-cast internally with church entrance porch in SE
re-entrant. Pointed-head to W gable main door with fanlight
and plaque above in slightly advanced centre bay; flanking
long narrow pointed-headed windows with one above; stumpy
gabled belfry with angle pilasters, stone crosses and louvred
vents. Some lattice-pane glazing.
3-storey presbytery incorporated in building, accommodated in
E arm of cross. Projecting glazed timber porch masks
presbytery entrance in centre 2-bay E gable, lit by
pointed-headed sash windows. Small single storey gabled wing
at NE.
Tomintoul slate roof.
INTERIOR: simple galleried interior re-cast and altered in
1939. Low rubble enclosing walls with burial ground to W.
Pedestrian entrance at W flanked by simple gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Plaque over west door reads: "Deo sub tutela B. Maria

Virginis et B. Michaelis Archangeli Dedicata MDCCCXXXVII".

Built on site of earlier church constructed 1788.

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