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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 735136
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/735136
NJ61SE 9 68496 12441
For old parish church of St Machar (NJ 6847 1255), see NJ61SE 5.02. For Cluny Parish Manse (NJ 6833 1261), see NJ61SE 19. For adjacent burial-ground (with Fraser Mausoleum) and present cemetery, see NJ61SE 5.00 and NJ61SE 28 respectively.
Erected 1789; interior recast, Mowat bell.
G Hay 1957.
Parish Church (North Church, Sauchen). This building is of Improvement-period rectangular form and was built in 1789 to accommodate the growth of the local population. The four round-headed windows are original and the E wall was built in grey ashlar with cherry-cocking, the remainder of the building being in granite rubble. The plain bellcote has a Mowat bell and the building was neatly extended in 1983 with the addition of a hall.
I Shepherd 1994.
