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Strathdon Parish Church and Kirkyard

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Strathdon Parish Church and Kirkyard

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    August 20, 2024

    The parish church of Strathdon is a striking cruciform building, very large for a rural parish. It sits on slightly raised ground above the Water of Nochty with fertile agricultural land surrounding it. The church is located within a large, walled graveyard, with a modern cemetery extension to the west. The large former manse stands just to the north.

    There has been a church on this site since at least 1200, when it was known as Invernochty. A map shows a church here in 1654, which was replaced in the 1660s and then rebuilt again a hundred years later. The present church dates to the mid 19th century and was largely funded by the landed and influential Forbes family.

    The kirkyard contains a Tardis-like red granite ashlar Egyptian mausoleum of two storeys built for Mary Forbes, wife of Daniel Mitchell.

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      Location: Donside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

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