Listed Building
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Address/Name of Site
ORTON, MAUSOLEUM, ENCLOSING BURIAL GROUND WALLS AND ST MARY'S WELLLB15867
Status: Designated
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Summary
- Category
- B
- Date Added
- 09/11/1987
- Local Authority
- Moray
- Planning Authority
- Moray
- Parish
- Rothes
- NGR
- NJ 32367 55184
- Coordinates
- 332367, 855184
Description
Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, architect, dated 1844. Gothic,
rectangular gabled mausoleum with SW entrance front.
Tooled ashlar, harled flanks, polished ashlar dressings.
Shallow flight of steps approach paired pointed-headed
entrances within recessed pointed-headed arch; flanking
nook-shafts and centre trumeau; inscribed quatrefoil
spandrel; angle buttresses with simple pinnacle; apex cross.
3-bay long elevations with centre projecting gabled bay at
NE; hoodmoulded pointed-headed windows light long elevations;
similar at NE gable but with paired lights. Lattice-pane
glazing; steeply pitched local slate roof with saw-tooth
skews and apex finials.
ENCLOSING WALL: coped rubble wall encloses mausoleum and
burial ground; pair square tooled ashlar gate piers in
centre SW, with gablet finials; pair cast-iron gates.
ST MARY'S WELL: set in centre of wall at NE, small drinking
well of earlier date within Gothic pedestal inscribed St
Mary's Well. Remnants of chain but no drinking cup survives.
Statement of Special Interest
Erected by Richard Wharton-Duff in memory of his uncle and
includes memorials to other members of Wharton Duff family.
Inscription as follows; 'Quo primum loco Moravienses
Christiani sacellum Mariae Virginis in honorem psourent
curus ad nostrum usque memoriam non nisi ruinae pervenerunt.
Hoc mausoleum utsub tecto ujus reliiqule sui ipsius svorumque requiescant in pace. Sepulchri memor extruendum curavit
Ricardus Duff de Orton armiger. Anno salut 1844'.
St Mary's an early chapel site with a long history as site
of pilgrimage and cure.
References
Bibliography
NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1842), p. 233.
Lachlan Shaw, THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCE OF MORAY (1775),
p. 326. ELGIN COURANT, 13 June, 1862: obituary of Richard
Wharton-Duff of Orton which refers to 'mausoleum built at
great expense from a design by the late Thomas Mackenzie of
Elgin'.
About Listed Buildings
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Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.
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