St Brandon's Old Church, Boyndie

The medieval church of St Brandon is located close to the coast, a short distance south-east of the fishing village of Whitehills. The church is surrounded by a small graveyard. The site is now enclosed on three sides by the modern Inverboyndie Industrial Estate, with large steel buildings and wide roads. 

St Brandon's Church is first mentioned in the early 13th century, but there is little information about it. The church continued in use until 1773, when it is reported the church was abandoned. It quickly fell into ruin and by the mid-to-late 19th century, only the west gable and bellcote survived, which still stands in the graveyard today. 

The surviving west gable of the church is fairly small and the ground level of the graveyard has risen over the years to partly obscure the doorway. There is a central round-arched door with a very small rectangular window above, at gallery level. The remains of a corbelled section in the gablehead appears to have been part of an earlier, larger bellcote. There is a tall, narrow bellcote on the apex, which has ashlar masonry. It has simple rectangular openings and a large ball finial on top. The rest of the gable is harled.