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Kinneddar Cross and Burial Ground, Kinneddar

A Category B Listed Building in Heldon and Laich, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.7093 / 57°42'33"N

Longitude: -3.3054 / 3°18'19"W

OS Eastings: 322313

OS Northings: 869582

OS Grid: NJ223695

Mapcode National: GBR L86B.W0M

Mapcode Global: WH6J1.6H8B

Plus Code: 9C9RPM5V+PR

Entry Name: Kinneddar Cross and Burial Ground, Kinneddar

Listing Name: Kineddar Cross and Kineddar Burial Ground Walls

Listing Date: 26 January 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 333133

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB2249

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Kinneddar, Old Parish Church

ID on this website: 200333133

Location: Drainie

County: Moray

Electoral Ward: Heldon and Laich

Parish: Drainie

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

CROSS: plain stone shaft, probably of medieval date, tapering
vestiges of chamfering and stops at apex, surmounted by later
iron cross. Mounted on 3-stepped stone plinth.
BURIAL GROUND: walled enclosure on site of early medieval
Kineddar Church, of which no trace remains. Walls, A and W
Reid, 1853.

Statement of Interest

Kineddar ante-dates Spynie Church and Palace (13th century)

as site of Bishopric of Moray.

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