All Saints Episcopal Church, West Church Street, Buckie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Buckie NGR NJ 42494 65566 Coordinates 342494, 865566 — CHURCH: Alexander Ross, 1876. Gothic. 4-bay rectangular church with projecting 3-stage tower with entrance at SW and apsidal chancel at E. Rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Entrance in base of tower flanked by small nook shafts and with moulded pointed-headed tympanum. Paired lancets in middle stage, moulded pointed-headed plate traceried windows in upper stage, from which rises broached spire with diminutive lucarnes and apex cast-iron weathervane. Buttressed 3-bay S elevation with gabled plate traceried windows breaking wallhead. Apsidal chancel lit by continuous row of small cusped lights linked by pulvinated string course at lintel height. Gable cross apices; slate roof, bowed and piended at E. INTERIOR: simple interior. Altar supported by paired polished red granite shafts; some coloured glass but mainly lattice-pane glazing; pine pulpit and pews; braced rafter roof supported by moulded corbel heads. CHURCH HALL: later 19th century rectangular gabled church hall abuts W gable of church. Rubble tooled ashlar dressings. 3-bay entrance front to West Church Street with pointed-headed centre door and flanking windows; oculus in set back gable; multi-pane glazing; slate roof. PARSONAGE: later 19th century 2-storey house linked to church by simple narrow 3-bay wing. Rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Asymmetrical 3-bay, L-plan E front with lean-to porch in re-entrant angle with side entrance; bipartite at left, projecting rectangular 3-light bay window at right. 1st floor tripartite in projecting gable, 2 gabled dormers break wallhead. 2-pane glazing. Coped end stacks; slate roof. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. C

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.