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Graveyard and site of church. It is a small walled graveyard, enclosing the site of the medieval parish church of the Holy Trinity. The coped rubble walls date to 1828, and have a carriage entrance at the South flanked by a pair of cast-iron spearheaded gates. There is now no trace of the church to be seen in the graveyard at Spynie, although the Eastern end is marked by a cross mounted on a modern shaft 2m high, with an inscription to that effect. The church of the Holy Trinity at Spynie was made a cathedral church in 1207, but the cathedral was transferred to Elgin in 1224. The church was removed to Quarrywood, called New Spynie, in 1735, and stones from the church were used to build the present parish church in 1736 (NJ16SW0018). The last remains, a Gothic gable, collapsed in circa 1850, but Macintosh stated in 1924 that the foundations were traced, measuring circa 23m by 10.5m, (75.5ft by 34.5ft), indicating a small church of simple character. Two burial vaults now occupy the site of the church. Within the graveyard are burial memorials and tombs from the late 16th century onwards, including the tomb of former British Prime Minister James Ramsay Macdonald (1866-1937). There is also a burial enclosure for Leslie of Findrassie family with a possibly re-used lintel dated 1766 and containing various tomb slabs, the earliest dated 1588, and 18th century mural monuments, including a fine Corinthian-esque aedicule (shrine) with an enriched frieze, dated 1793. Recording of tombstones within the graveyard has been carried out by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group.
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NJ26NW0031 - HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, SPYNIE