Kinloss Abbey Kinloss, Scotland
Listed Building Data
Kinloss Abbey has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 340874 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 8687
- Canmore ID
- 15888
- Category
- A
- Name
- Kinloss Abbey and Burial Ground
- Parish
- Kinloss
- County
- Moray
- Easting
- 306570
- Northing
- 861507
- Date Listed
- 26 January 1971
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Walled burial ground containing ruins of Kinloss Abbey. Surviving fragments of Abbey, dating from 13th to 16th centuries include portions of S transept of church including barrel vaulted chapel with early 19th century altar with cusped front and entrance dated 1830. Stumps of cluster columns indicate nave; further remains below soil. Circular stair tower and ruins of 16th century Abbot's house stand immediately S of Abbey ruins, just outside burial ground. Fine burial enclosure of early and mid 19th century builds containing memorials to Grant Peterkin family of Grange Hall and Invererne. Mainly 18th and 19th century tombstones. RAF burial enclosure.
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Scheduled Monument. Kinloss Abbey founded in 1150 by David I for the Cistercian Order and grew in size during the 13th-15th centuries. It was visited by King Edward I and King Edward III in 1303 and 1336 respectively. The Abbey owned fishings at Findhorn and in the Cistercian agricultural tradition, farmed and improved the surrounding fertile land. Abbot Robert Reid became Abbot in 1528 (and subsequently Bishop of Orkney); he was responsible for the Abbot's dwelling, the ruins of which stand just outside the burial ground. Kinloss Abbey became the property of the Brodie's of Lethen soon after the dissolution; in 1651-2 they sold much of the stone to build the Citadel in Inverness; by 1842 the Abbey had 'formed a quarry for almost all the old houses and granaries of the neighbourhood'. Change of Category B to A 25.4.89.
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
D MacGibbon and T Ross, THE ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTLAND i (1896), pp.417-421. J Stuart, RECORDS OF MONASTERY OF KINLOSS (1881). Anon, SURVEY OF THE PROVINCE OF MORAY (1798), pp.73-6. NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1842), p.206.
