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Latitude: 57.1275 / 57°7'38"N
Longitude: -2.8576 / 2°51'27"W
OS Eastings: 348181
OS Northings: 804386
OS Grid: NJ481043
Mapcode National: GBR WN.4WKZ
Mapcode Global: WH7N9.23JV
Plus Code: 9C9V44GR+XX
Entry Name: Church, The Square, Tarland
Listing Name: Tarland, Old Parish Church Including Churchyard, Boundary Wall, Gatepiers, Lower Terrace Retaining Wall and Drinking Fountain
Listing Date: 16 April 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349961
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB16242
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200349961
Location: Tarland
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Aboyne, Upper Deeside and Donside
Parish: Tarland
Traditional County: Aberdeenshire
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1762. 6-bay, rectangular-plan roofless church with birdcage belfry to W gable. plain Neo-Classical-style church. Random rubble granite with squared courses to openings, lintels and rybats, and quoins. Semicircular-arched windows. Only W gable intact above eaves height.
W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: Gable end with tall window to centre with birdcage belfry; 4 square, corner columns supporting entablature, rising to cornice and ogee cap terminating in ball finial. Lintel to blocked entrance inscribed,'MR TM 1762'.
E (REAR) ELEVATION: gable end with window to centre.
N (SIDE) ELEVATION: blank wall.
S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay regular fenestration with entrance to centre left bay.
Coped skews terminating in small skew putts.
INTERIOR: open turfed ground with tapered column monument terminating in urn to centre right.
CHURCHYARD: a large rectangular area of ground also containing the church standing on terraced, raised ground above the village's main square. Predominantly 19th century gravestones, some 18th century. Several stones lined up against the S wall carved with death motifs are similar to examples at Lumphanan and Coull churchyards (see separate listings) suggesting the work of the same mason. Large Victorian screen monument to W wall; 3-bay, blind gothic arcade.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: coped, squared rubble wall. Square piers with pyramidal caps. Retaining wall to lower terrace facing street.
DRINKING FOUNTAIN: Dated 1913. Semicircular-arched, tripartite slab stone on plinth carved with Celtic knot work affixed to lower terrace wall. Pink granite with bronze, canted water trough to base dated 1913.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Though roofless the old church still retains it's fine birdcage belfry which forms a prominent terminus to the E end of the village square.
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