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Graveyard, chapel and site of chapel of ease of pre Reformation date, dependent on Urquhart Priory. No trace of earlier chapel although burial ground still in use. Ruined chapel known to have existed in 1602, and another built in 1687. Desecrated by soldiers in 1728 and abandoned, though the slates were re used to re-roof St Ninian's, Tynet in 1787. White marble Celtic cross commemorates Bishop Nicholson first Vicar Apostolic of Scotland who died in 1718 and 26 priests buried within the grave yard. Modern private chapel built in cemetery in 1955. The chapel is rectangular in plan and is incorporated in the east angle of the burial ground wall. It is harled with ashlar dressings, and a round headed entrance in centre W gable with double leaf plank doors. Crowstepped gables with cross finial at the west apex. Inserted above door in the south gable is a stone inscribed IHS with a Latin cross above the H and a date below letters 1687. The Dawson Mausoleum was erected on this site in 1939. It is Octagonal in plan, constructed of rubble with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. It has small square headed lights with lattice pane glazing in each face, and a piended octagonal roof of graded Banffshire slate with a lead apex cross. The graveyard is enclosed by rubble walls with entrance in the northeast angle flanked by square ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps and linked by an ashlar overthrow with an apex cross and a pair of cast-iron gates. within the graveyard are four Commonwealth war graves, three from the First World War (two of these Canadian servicemen) and one from World War II. Monumental inscriptions within the churchyard were recorded by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group in 2009.
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NJ36SE0050 - ST NINIAN'S CHAPEL, CHAPELFORD