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Inveravon Parish Church and graveyard. The church was constructed in circa 1808, on or near the site of a 12th Century Church (NJ13NE0023), and incorporating some fragments of a 16th century building into its fabric. Additions and alterations by A. Marshall Mackenzie, Aberdeen, took place in 1876. It is a simple rectangular building that is harled, with tooled granite margins and dressings, and later dressings of tooled ashlar sandstone, and with a slated roof. There are three pointed windows on the North, where the main entrance is situated within a 1876 gabled entrance porch. In the East gable, there is a circular rose window above a lattice-glazed fanlight, which is itself above a round-headed entrance. There are four symmetrical round-headed windows on the South elevation, incorporating masonry from the North wall of the earlier church. There are three hooks for former shutter hinges to the window margins, and geometric glazing from 1876. There is a plain, re-cast interior, with pine a plank dado and pews. There is a gallery at the East, a carved backboard behind the communion table and a fielded panel door re-used in passage cupboard, dating to 1808 or earlier. A single storeyed minister's room is attached to the West gable, which has a shouldered lintel to the doorway, a simple bipartite with lattice-pane glazing and slate roofs. The graveyard, which lies on three sides of the church is surrounded by a coped rubble wall, and entered through cast iron gates supported by a pair of simple square granite gatepiers with shaped caps. There are tombstones from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the earlier gravestones are made of local slate, and bear finely detailed inscriptions. A Gothic mausoleum, for the MacPherson Grants of Ballindalloch Castle (NJ13NE0004), lies in the North-East corner of the graveyard and dates from 1829. The mausoleum was designed by the Elgin architect William Robertson. It is rectangular, with coursed tooled pink granite and tooled and polished ashlar sandstone dressings that is orientated East-West. There is a shallow pointed and hoodmoulded recessed entrance in the centre West gable, and a similar headed Y-tracery window in the East gable with a small oculus above and angle buttresses. There is a canopied niche in the centre of the North and South elevations. Canopies with delicate cusped detailing and diminutive ribbed soffits appear to be re-used. There are octagonal pedestals, each supported by a corbelled base to each niche, and the pedestals also appear re-used. A concave moulded eaves cornice is carried up to crowstepped gables as continuous course. There is a Banffshire slate roof with apex crosses. Within the graveyard there is a monument to General James Grant (1720-1806) who fought in the Battle of Fontenoy (11 May 1745, Belgium), at Culloden and in Canada in Wolfe's campaign. He became governor of Florida in 1760 and was part of the force that conquered St Lucia in 1768, before he retired to Ballindalloch. A group of Pictish symbol stones (NJ13NE0007) are housed in the North porch of the church (formerly attached to an outer wall). There is a former manse and school directly to the South (NJ13NE0090). Removal of a large recumbent stone located beneath the surface by the MBGRG was monitored in November 2015 by AAS, but the stone had no carvings or other markings. Also known as Inveraven Church / Church of Inveraven. There are three Commonwealth War Graves within the graveyard.
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NJ13NE0027 - INVERAVON PARISH CHURCH