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Graveyard and site of former parish church. The parish church of Lhanbryde, which was dedicated to St Brigida, is first mentioned in the charters of Bishop Bricius in 1208 (referred to as church of 'Langbride'). It fell into disrepair on the union of the two parishes in 1780 and it was replaced by the present parish church (NJ26SE0040) and demolished in 1796. There is now no trace of the church, but the square walled burial ground is maintained, although it is now closed for burials. It has a coped rubble wall with entrances to the North and South, each with a pair of tooled ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps from the late-19th century. At the South, the burial ground is approached by a wide flight of stone steps. Tombstones date from the 16th, 17th, 18th centuries and later. Two stones in the graveyard remember men killed in World War I. There are two square coped rubble walled burial enclosures, one of the Innes family that is probably incorporating fragments of the earlier church. It has polished ashlar margins and a moulded cope. The centre entrance in the West face is closed by a spearheaded cast-iron gate. There is a recessed, pointed-headed mural tomb with an effigy of a medieval recumbent knight, and two mural panels that are probably re-set grave slabs, dated 1580 and 1612. The stone from 1612 commemorates Alexander Innes of Coxton, who died on the 6th of October 1612. Tombstones within the churchyard have been recorded by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group.
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NJ26SE0047 - ST BRIGET'S CHURCH, LHANBRYDE