Beechgrove Church, Mid Stocket Road, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/01/1967 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 92331 06510 Coordinates 392331, 806510 — Brown and Watt, architects, 1896-1900. Norman-gothic T-plan church with clerestory, transepts and tall open tower. Tooled coursed grey granite with finely margins. Base course; band course; pointed-arched openings; buttressed angles; eaves cornice; decorative stone finials at apex of gables. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; gabled centre bay, 3 pairs of small bipartite windows to centre surmounted by tripartite tall lancet window, chamfered and moulded with decorative hoodmoulds; deeply chamfered vesica set in gablehead; oversized buttress flanking to right, gableted with tooled blind basket tracery. Square-plan 4-stage entrance tower adjoining to left; pointed-arched doorway to ground floor, deeply chamfered with hoodmould, 6 stone steps with railings to 2-leaf boarded timber door with small-pane decorative glazed upper panels, vertically glazed fanlight with dentil-moulded cill; tripartite four-centred-arched window to left return; 3 small lancets to 2nd stage above doorway, single lancets to other elevations; pair of lancets to each face of 3rd stage; open 4th stage with pair bipartite windows surmounted by tall open lancets with cusped heads; balustraded of pointed-arched openings, flanked at angles by octagonal pinnaces rising from buttresses; octagonal granite spires with small pointed arched lucarnes flanked by pinnaces to N, S, E and W, decorative iron finial to apex. Single storey bay to left with crenellated parapet, pointed-arched doorway to ground floor, deeply chamfered with hoodmould, 7 stone steps with railings to 2-leaf boarded timber door with small-pane decorative glazed upper panels, verticall

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.