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Churchyard, graveyard and remains of church of Urquhart dedicated to St Margaret. The church of St Margaret, of which there is now no trace above ground, stood in the churchyard and is first mentioned in 1234. The earlier church was replaced in circa 1659 and subsequently demolished in 1844 after a new parish church was built to the north in 1842-3 (NJ26SE0100 - this replacement church was in turn replaced by another new parish church on the outer edge of the village, NJ26SE0039). A possible fragment of the 17th century church survives towards the centre of the site, in the form of a small section of wall on the south face of which is a memorial tablet to Reverend Alexander Gadderar (1714). The burial ground has been extended eastwards and is still in use. It has rubble and coped stone walls. There is a pair of square gatepiers with pyramidal caps in the northwest corner. Parts of burial enclosures remain, along with mostly 18th and 19th, and some 20th century gravestones. In the kerbed enclosure near the main gate is a plaque with moulded ogee arch on top over an angel with abstractly striated wings (commemorating Elizabeth Tod, d. 1781, George Gilzean, d.1784, and family). The graveyard also contains the Commonwealth War Graves of Corporal James Alexander Brander (Seaforth Highlanders) who died in December 1915 and Sergeant William Goodbrand (RAF Volunteer Reserve) who died in September 1944. Recording of tombstones within the graveyard has been carried out by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group.
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NJ26SE0046 - ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, URQUHART