Alves Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/04/1989 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Alves NGR NJ 12532 61494 Coordinates 312532, 861494 — 1845, probably John Urquhart, architect, Forres, remodelled with extensive interior refitting and with rear wing, A and W Reid and Melvin, 1878 (church dated 1878). Rectangular church with N facing entrance gable and long 3-bay E and W elevatons. Harled, tooled and polished ashlar margins and dressings. Centre bay in N gable projecting as tower with round-headed entrance leading to recessed porch, louvred opening 2nd stage, square open balustraded bellcote with shaped angle finials above. Paired narrow bays flanking entrance delineated by shallow margined pilaster strips clasping angles and supporting simple entablature returning by 1 bay. 2 round-headed windows each side of porch, 2 in gable head, 3 similar windows to E and W elevations; large wheel window in centre of rear (S) gable. Lattice-pane glazing. Slate roof. 1878 single storey, 4-bay gabled room at rear; harl pointed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings; 12-pane glazing. Ridge stack; slate roof. INTERIOR: galleried interior, the gallery supported by slender cast-iron columns rising through gallery to ceiling, the centre portion of which is barrel vaulted longitudinally. 1878 pine panelled front to gallery; 1878 balustraded platform type pulpit reached by flight of stairs. 2 bells by Michael Burgherhys Holland, dated 1637 and 1639, removed from old Alves parish church in 1978, now displayed in church ENCLOSING WALL: church enclosed by simple drystone rubble wall with entrance flanked by square gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps; pair cast-iron gates. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Circa 1845 church described in 1878 as being a 'temporary' structure with a flat fe

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.