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Publication Account
Date 1986
Event ID 1017291
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017291
This simple rectangular church, set on a peaceful green mound, was built in the later 13th century as the parish church of Auchindoir, at a time when great efforts were being made to consolidate the parochial system. The south doorway is a fme example of work from this peliod, the high point of Scottish medieval stone-mason work. Its hood moulding is decorated with dogtooth carvings that surround the plain roundheaded mouldings of the opening. The latter are carried on 'handsome crocket caps' and narrow shafts.
The church was remodelled in the early 16th century and a fine sacrament house, carved to look like a monstrance, inserted into a lancet window.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Grampian’, (1986).
