Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

GRANGE PARISH CHURCH (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND) AND ENCLOSING WALLLB8707

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
C
Date Added
24/03/1988
Local Authority
Moray
Planning Authority
Moray
Parish
Grange
NGR
NJ 48052 51541
Coordinates
348052, 851541

Description

1795-6; additions and re-cast, A & W, Elgin, 1888. Plain

rectangular church with 4-bay long S elevation completely

blank N wall, later porch at W gable and vestry at E. Harled,

tooled ashlar margins; tooled rubble additions also with

ashlar dressings.

4 large round-headed windows light S elevation with lattice

-pane glazing and surviving shutter hooks; gallery window at

E; 1795 bellcote at W gable apex and ball finial at E;

local slate roof.

2-storey, single bay porch at W with doorway in N face and

window above; ground and 1st floor windows in W elevation;

2 pane glazing; string course and corniced wallhead.

INTERIOR: re-cast to E; gallery at W with panelled front

(possibly re-used panelling from earlier gallery) supported

by cast-iron columns; organ and pulpit at E end; plain pine

seating and dado; lowered and boarded ceiling.

WALL: church enclosed at N and NW by coped rubble wall;

entrance at NW flanked by simple square gate piers with plain

square caps linked to lower similar end piers by quadrants.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Church sited on mounded, partially moated site formerly

occupied by tower house built by Abbot Thomas of Kinloss

Abbey in 1525, who died there circa 1535. Known as 'Castlehill'

the site was chosen 1795-6 in preference to the earlier church

site because the ground was firm. Earlier church stood in present

burial ground and was reported 'ruinous' in 1795.

Change of Category: B to C(S), 24.3.88

References

Bibliography

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1791, Witherington and Grant edition,

1982), pp. 200, 202. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1842),

pp. 213, 218. William Cramond, THE CHURCH OF GRANGE (circa 1897),

p. 131. Elgin Library, DAW P748/1-3 (plans and drawings 1888).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

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