Duthil Old Parish Church and Churchyard

[1] Plans held by the National Records of Scotland show the 19th century interior was focussed on a raised pulpit on the long south wall.

[3] The church was again renovated just before World War I by the Glasgow architect Peter MacGregor Chalmers,[4] when the intention was to provide space for an organ and choir.

Additionally, a number of memorial plaques were removed from the walls and rehung in the vestry of the Carrbridge Church, where they remain: these include one to Field Marshal Sir Patrick Grant.

An account of the ceremony was first published in ‘The Inverness Courier’, 1 April 1840:[9]The scene was one which will be indelibly engraved on the memories of those who witnessed it, and will form the subject of a tale, that will be told with feelings of deep interest, by sire to son, for generations yet to come.

Over a wide tract of country, extending to many miles, and comprehending several parishes, all operations were suspended; and a mournful gloom, like a heavy cloud, hung over the district.

Groups of people, of all ages, decently attired, were seen in different directions, wending their way towards the line of procession: while the tolling, at intervals, of the bells of the churches and public seminaries [schools], rendered the event more striking and impressive.

At two o'clock the procession emerged from the policies of Castle Grant - the people on foot, assembled at this point, being in advance of the funeral, in marching order.

… After the tenantry assembled on the spot were permitted to take the last look of the remains, the gates of the splendid Mausoleum (finished only last year) were closed on the mother and son, there to repose “in the sure and certain hope of a joyful resurrection”.'

A plaque bolted across its door reads: "In terms of the Testamentary Writings of Caroline Stuart, Countess Dowager of Seafield, this Mausoleum has been closed and is not to be used for further interments.

That of the Countess, now rejoining in the silence of the tomb those whose early deaths threw a shadow over the greater portion of her life, was placed temporarily at right angles to the others.

James Bain, minister of the Church of Scotland parish of Duthil 1877-1911 sought to prevent the building of the second Mausoleum, claiming the first was insanitary as the coffins it held were stored above ground, unburied.