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Graveyard and site of the old parish church of Echt. Granted to Scone by Thomas, son of Malcolm de Lunden, the church was confirmed by Pope Honorius III in 1225. The parsonage thereafter remained with the abbey, while the cure was a vicarage perpetual. Nothing is now visible of the church. The interior of the sub-rectangular burial-ground, which is enclosed by a drystone wall, is raised between 1 m and 1.5 m above the surrounding ground level, and contains many headstones of 19th-century date. The position of the church is not clear, but there is a concentration of older stones, including a number of small granite headstones, towards the south side and southeast corner. An architectural fragment has been built into the outer face of the wall at the southwest corner, 24 m south of the gate and 0.5 m above the ground. It is a granite block, measuring 0.36 m high by 0.34 m broad, now used as a socket stone for a stanchion, and it bears a narrow edge chamfer. The graveyard contains two Commonwealth war graves.
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