Auld Kirk, Logie-Coldstone

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Logie-Coldstone NGR NJ 43526 04366 Coordinates 343526, 804366 — 1781, altered and extended by Duguid of Ballater, 1876, converted as residential, 1993. 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled church with square-plan belltower to NW corner. Belltower, vestry, porch and crowstepped gables added by Duguid. Square pink granite courses. Semicircular-arched windows. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall window to gablehead, gabled porch to ground with bipartite window and entrance to SW return. 3-stage, square-plan belltower to NW corner, staggered arrowslit lights to lower stages. Venetian window louvred openings to 3rd stage, continous string course above rising to corbelled projecting cornice. Capped with weighty spire terminating in cast-iron weathervane. E (REAR) ELEVATION: small entrance to ground, large window to gablehead. N (SIDE) ELEVATION: boilerhouse with lean-to roof to centre left, gabled vestry to centre right, belltower abutting to outer right. S SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay regular fenestration. Stained timber frame, plate glass glazing. Grey slates, lead flashing, gablet roof vents. INTERIOR: modern conversion to residential property. — Ecclesiastic building (former Church of Scotland) converted to residential property in 1993 with a swimming pool now occupying the nave. The church was founded to mark the amalgamation of the parishes of Logie and Coldstone. The location of the Newkirk is believed to have been founded by the ministers of Logie and Coldstone walking from the ancient parish kirkyards and setting the new building where they met half way.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.