| Details |
Ruins of church, possibly on the site of an earlier chapel, and graveyard. The earlier chapel is first mentioned in a charted of circa 1209. The ruins are of the more recent church, which was rebuilt in 1754 and in use until 1826, with the present parish church (NJ05NE0015) built shortly after circa 200 metres to the North. The old church was largely taken down in 1827 and the material was used to build dykes around the present church, and to repair the Mill of Marcassie and Templestones. Two gables survived until 1959, when the West gable was demolished. The lower portion of the East wall remains, forming the West end of a shed and part of the East wall of a private burial plot. The walls enclosing the graveyard are constructed of rubble. A pair of square tooled ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps flank the entrance, closed by a pair of cast-iron carriage gates. The graveyard contains three large enclosures (Dunbar, Logan-Bates and unidentified), and a building which may have been a watch house, now re-roofed and used as a shed. There are various other burial enclosures with memorials from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, probably incorporating material from the old church. The gravestones include early flat stones, and a mixture of upright stones and wall tablets, mainly of 19th and early 20th century date. The area was subject to an archaeological watching brief in 2004 (NJ05NE0058) as part of the Moray Flood Alleviation Scheme, with test pitting taking place nearby, and there was a second watching brief that took place in 2008 (NJ05NE0059). Neither found any archaeology of note. Monumental inscriptions within the churchyard were recorded by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group in 2005-6 .
|
Historic Environment Records (HER) 
Moray
HER -
NJ05NE0005 - OLD CHURCH OF RAFFORD