Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

DRUMMUIR, BOTRIPHNIE PARISH CHURCH (C OF S) AND BURIAL GROUND WITH REMAINS OF FORMER CHURCH AND MURAL MONUMENTS.LB4283

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
22/02/1972
Local Authority
Moray
Planning Authority
Moray
Parish
Botriphnie
NGR
NJ 37539 44114
Coordinates
337539, 844114

Description

1820, alterations and additions, R B Pratt, Elgin, 1901.

Rectangular harl pointed rubble church, tooled ashlar

dressings. Long S facing elevation with pair large

round-headed windows flanked by entrances in outer bays

each with round-headed fanlight and double-leaf plank doors. Square-headed gallery window in each gable under relieving arch. Ball-finialled bellcote at W gable apex (re-used from old

church, Keith); re-hung 1753 bell; ball finial at E apex.

1901. Minister's room extends at E gable. Single storey,

2 bays with round-headed door and window.

1901 glazing throughout. Slate roofs.

1986 extension at rear of Minister's room.

INTERIOR: original galleried lay-out. 5-sided gallery

supported by cast-iron columns; original field-panel front

with Gordon-Duff armorials inset at centre. 19th century

mural monuments.

BURIAL GROUND: semi-circular rubble walled burial ground

fronts church with some up-standing remains of 1617 (and

possibly earlier) church now re-used as burial enclosure

with various exceptionally good mural monuments dated

1667, 1727 and 1758. 17th century and subsequent tombstones.

Simple entrance to burial ground closed by pair cast-iron

spearhead carriage gates.

MURAL MONUMENTS IN RUINOUS OLD CHURCH;

1667; commemorating Ann Gordon and Katherine Leslie, sited on

E wall, a Corinthianesque aedicule with good 17th century

lettering and enriched frieze.

1727, commemorating Reverend George Chalmers, sited on W,

wall, Roman Doric aedicule with pulvinated frieze, broken

segmental armorial pediment and finely carved nimbus flanking

a bible containing a white marble tablet in black frame.

1758, commemorating Helen Chalmers, sited on S wall, Ionic

pilastered and pedimented aedicule.

Undated 18th century panel to John Stewart on exterior

of S wall.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Bellcote at old church Keith superseded when new St Rufus

church, with substantial tower, was opened circa 1819. In it

hangs bell cast in 1753 by John Mowat of Old Aberdeen.

Very fine mural monuments in old church (ruin).

References

Bibliography

Presbytery Record, Scottish Records Office CH2/342/9,

pp. 220, 222, 315, 319. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1841),

p. 210. George Hay, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH

POST-REFORMATION CHURCHES 1660-1843 (1957), p. 250. BANFFSHIRE

HERALD, 7 December 1901. Angus Howat and Mike Seton,

CHURCHES IN MORAY (1981), p. 6.

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