St James's Episcopal Graveyard in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire

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Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire AB42 0SF Scotland

Coordinates: 57.41104, -1.88760
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The church stands on a prominent hill-top location just outside the village off Cruden Bay. The site, called Chapel Hill, has long been associated with a place of worship. The graveyard, which surrounds the church on all sides, has 19th and 20th century burials and two Commonwealth War Graves.

The parish history of Cruden goes back for over a thousand years. The present Saint James's was opened in 1843 and was the first commission of the architect William Hay (1818-1888). Its tall, pinnacled tower and spire can be seen for miles around. The church is on Chapel Hill in the countryside a mile and a half from the village of Cruden Bay.
The baptismal font dates from 1012 and came from the chantry chapel built by a Scottish King and a Danish Prince after a battle on the beach at Cruden Bay, which marked the end of Viking involvement on the north-east coast of Scotland.

The present church replaced a previous one, which was built on the same site in 1765. Before then, during the years of persecution of the Episcopal Church after the Battle of Culloden, the congregation met among the sand-dunes on the beach.