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St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven

A Category B Listed Building in Rathven, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6773 / 57°40'38"N

Longitude: -2.9353 / 2°56'7"W

OS Eastings: 344317

OS Northings: 865656

OS Grid: NJ443656

Mapcode National: GBR M83F.J2V

Mapcode Global: WH7KJ.W9FB

Plus Code: 9C9VM3G7+WV

Entry Name: St Peter's Church And Old Burial-Ground, Rathven

Listing Name: Rathven Old Burial Ground and Rannas Aisle

Listing Date: 22 February 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 349172

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15529

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200349172

Location: Rathven

County: Moray

Electoral Ward: Buckie

Parish: Rathven

Traditional County: Banffshire

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Description

BURIAL GROUND: large irregularly shaped rubble walled burial
ground; tooled ashlar cope; cast-iron spearhead railings at
NW angle flanking simple entrance with pair slender cast-iron
gatepiers and closed by plain spearhead carriage gates.
Various tombstone of 18th century and subsequent date. Burial
enclosure of Gordons of Farskan and Nether Buckie erected
1799 but incorporating memorial of 1592.
RANNAS AISLE: dated 1612. Former S aisle of demolished parish
church. Rectangular, harl pointed rubble; ashlar dressings.
Large round-headed arched entrance with chamfered ashlar
margins; concave moulded eaves cornice; flush faced slab
roof.
INTERIOR: substantial marble memorial to Andrew Hay of
Rannas, died 1789; single hatchment.

Statement of Interest

Farskan (Gordons of Farskan) on site now occupied by Cullen

Bay Hotel.

Old parish church demolished 1793-4 to furnish materials for

new church, the present Rathven parish church sited to NE of

burial ground. Only the S aisle survives, housing the

memorial to Andrew Hay of Rannas and his forebears, his

geneological details inscribed on the mural tablet. Andrew

(d.1789) was the last Hay of Rannas and after his death the

estate was purchased by the Earl of Seafield.

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