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Kearn Church, Mausoleum
Mausoleum (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kearn Church, Mausoleum
Classification Mausoleum (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 155016
Site Number NJ52NW 58
NGR NJ 5144 2661
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/155016
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Auchindoir And Kearn
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ52NW 58 5144 2661
See also NJ52NW 21.
A small unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire 1870, sheet xliii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 31 March 1999.
(Reclassified as Mausoleum). This early-19th-century mausoleum, which is situated in woodland immediately S of the burial-ground of Kearn Church (NJ52NW 21), measures 5.8m from WNW to ESE by 4.6m transversely overall and stands to a height of 2.5m at the top of its coped wall. There is an arched entrance with a wooden door in the middle of the NNE side, and within the interior there are plaques on the W, S and E walls commemorating members of the Grant family of Druminnor Castle (NJ52NW 14).
The mausoleum is depicted on both the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Aberdeenshire, 1870, sheet xliii; 1902, sheet xlii.sw), but it is not shown on the current edition of the 1:10,000 map (1972).
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 15 July 2003.
