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Holy Trinity Church And Burial Ground, Spynie

A Category B Listed Building in Fochabers Lhanbryde, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6726 / 57°40'21"N

Longitude: -3.295 / 3°17'42"W

OS Eastings: 322853

OS Northings: 865486

OS Grid: NJ228654

Mapcode National: GBR L87F.TKD

Mapcode Global: WH6J7.CD5Y

Plus Code: 9C9RMPF3+2X

Entry Name: Holy Trinity Church And Burial Ground, Spynie

Listing Name: Spynie Burial Ground

Listing Date: 25 April 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 349221

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15575

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Spynie, Holy Trinity Church And Burial Ground

ID on this website: 200349221

Location: Spynie

County: Moray

Electoral Ward: Fochabers Lhanbryde

Parish: Spynie

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: Church building Cemetery Architectural structure

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Description

Square rubble walled burial ground enclosing site of
medieval parish church of the Holy Trinity.
1828 coped rubble walls with carriage entrance at S flanked
by pair cast-iron spearhead gates. Various square burial
enclosures including that of Leslie of Findrassie family with
(?re-used) lintel dated 1766 and containing various tomb
slabs, the earliest dated 1588, and 18th century mural
monuments including fine Corinthianesque aedicule with
enriched frieze dated 1793. 17th, 18th and subsequent
tombstones (18th century of particular quality); also tomb of
James Ramsay Macdonald, (1866-1937).

Statement of Interest

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1835), p. 97.

Robert Young, THE PARISH OF SPYNIE (1871), pp. 350-7.

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