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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
Also known as: Rathven, St Peter's Church And Old Burial-ground
ID on this website: 200349172
Location: Rathven
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Buckie
Parish: Rathven
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Church building Cemetery
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.
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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