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Remains of parish church and graveyard. It was replaced in 1794 by the present parish church (NJ46NW0012), at which time the church was partially destroyed to provide building materials for this. The only remnant of the church, known as the Rannas Aisle, is in the North-East of the graveyard, and is a much restored structure that formed the South aisle of the demolished church, and is dated 1612. It is rectangular, and constructed of harl pointed rubble with ashlar dressings. It is vaulted, with a large Gothic round-headed arch with chamfered ashlar margins, a concave moulded eaves cornice and a flush faced slab roof. Inside is a substantial marble memorial to Andrew Hay of Rannas, who died in 1789, and other memorials to his ancestors from the 15th to the 18th Centuries. The graveyard is large and irregular, and contained by a rubble wall with tooled ashlar cope. Cast-iron railings at the North-West flank a simple entrance with a pair of slender cast-iron gatepiers, and closed by plain spearhead carriage gates. The Southern end of the railings on the West side of the graveyard go into one of a pair of tall square ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps supporting a blocked entrance consisting of a round-headed harl pointed rubble and coped wall. A second cast-iron spearheaded gate supported by square gatepiers with pyramidal caps is in the South-West re-entrant angle. There are various tombstones from the 18th century and subsequent dates, and the burial enclosure of Gordons of Farskan and Nether Buckie, erected in 1799, but incorporating a memorial from 1592. There are five Commonwealth War Graves within the graveyard. Monumental inscriptions within the churchyard were recorded by the Moray Burial Ground Research Group in 2010-12.
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NJ46NW0001 - ST PETER'S CHURCH, RATHVEN