Building record MAB31409 - ST ANDREW'S CHAPEL AND GRAVEYARD, BRAEMAR

Graveyard and site of a chapel.

Graveyard and site of a chapel. A church, called the White Kirk, is supposed to have been erected in the 8th and 9th centuries by the monks of St Andrew's, of which no trace remains. In the reign of David I a new church was built near the green knoll close to the castle. Its revenues were paid to St Andrew's until 1230 when they were granted to St Mary of Monymusk and so continued until the Reformation. A church was said to be extant in 1807. It may have stood on the present site of the Farquharson Mausoleum which was built in the first half of the 19th century in Neo-Tudor style. Close to the mausoleum is the grave of Peter Grant, the last surviving Jacobite soldier who fought at the Battle of Culloden. He was born in 1714 and grew up at Dubrach, near Braemar, who joined the Monaltrie's and Balmoral regiment of the Jacobite Army. Taken prisoner after the Battle of Culloden he escaped from Carlisle Prison and returned to the Highlands, where he died in February 1824 aged 110. Also within the graveyard are three Commonwealth war graves (NO19SE0033).

ERSKINE, S, 1898, BRAEMAR, 41-2, 46 (Bibliographic reference). SAB461.

McCONNACHIE, AL, 1898, THE ROYAL DEE, 43-4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1136.

Aug 20 1984 , CN 1-2, CN 1-2 (Ground Photograph). SAB33301.

Feb 1 2000 , GR-00-CT322 - 323, GR-00-CT322 - 323 (Ground Photograph). SAB36938.

Feb 11 2000 , GR/00/CT80-84, GR/00/CT80-84 (Ground Photograph). SAB36926.

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