Old Cluny Churchyard, Aberdeenshire.
The kirkyard is noteworthy for the following: Linton burial-enclosure: an elegant but simple monument (possibly by Archibald Simpson) in neo-Greek ashlar, monument to James Reid and his wife Marie Claudine Nardin, probably of 1897, an unusual terracotta work in early Italian Renaissance style, and four well-preserved mortsafes.
Old Cluny Churchyard. Site of St Machar’s church; the first kirk belonged to the cathedral of Aberdeen and is first mentioned in the taxation of 1225. About 1732 it was described as ‘cross church’ with two aisles; it was ruinous about 1789 and was demolished.
The old churchyard contains four mortsafes and a few old stones; unusual terracotta Early Italian renaissance monument to James Reid and his wife, c. 1897. It also contains the Fraser Mausoleum; neo-classical, circular ashlar granite with moulded base on a low square podium, architraved doorpiece with wrought-iron grille and a fine coat-of-arms over it; the dome has an oculus.
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