Church Of Scotland, Advie Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 20/12/1979 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Cromdale, Inverallan And Advie NGR NJ 12645 34269 Coordinates 312645, 834269 — A & W Reid, Elgin 1873-4, substantial additions and internal refitting, John Robertson, Inverness. 1904-5. Rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Simple 1873-4 rectangular church with small cusped lights orientated E-W, with 1904 additional tower with porch and gabled lobby at SW and projecting bowed 3 window bay at SE. Recessed pointed headed doorway under shallow gabled porch in base of 2-stage tower; doubled leaf panelled doors. Upper stage of tower with paired pointed-headed louvred lancets in each face, and pierced parapet with angle and centre pinnacles rising from angle buttresses and engaged centre piers; flanking projecting gable (R) with long 2-light window; apex cross. Bowed SE bay with piended bowed slate roof with apex cast-iron weather vane. Mainly lattice-pane glazing; slate roof. Vestry wing to rear. Interior; Gothic decoration to triple panelled backboard; panelled pulpit at NE and reading desk SE; similarly detailed communion table with railings; shaped ends to pews. Various mural memorials including to Edward VII and 7th and 8th Earls of Seafield. Some windows filled with stained glass of various dates, including 2 by Heaton Butler and Bane of London. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Present burial ground at NJ 141 353 the site of earlier Advie church. Advie annexed to Cromdale 1593, but declared Quoad Sacra parish in 1888. Additions to church in 1904-5 gifted by George McCorquodale of Dalcroy and Tulchan in memory of his son. E G McCorquodale, died 24.5.1904. Memorial to Edward VII "who often worshipped here".

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.