Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 562986
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Parish church, 1803, and remains of St Martin's Church, 1591. Simple box with bellcote and session house. An aisle of St Martin's Church survives as the Botary and Pitlurg Aisle in the kirkyard, which the Gordons of that Ilk restored as a burial enclosure in 1868. It contains effigy of Sir John Gordon of Pitlurge, Knycht, (who) 'caust big this ile' 1597. (He was the father of Robert Gordon of Straloch whose atlas of Scotland was published by Blaeu of Amsterdam in 1648.) Altered 1887 and 1902.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
