Corgarff Church, Corgarff

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Strathdon National Park Cairngorms NGR NJ 27929 08315 Coordinates 327929, 808315 — Mr Daniel architect (see Notes), 1834-5. Dignified rectangular-plan church with 4-bay nave, pinnacled bellcote with bell and good galleried interior, on peaceful site close to Corgarff Village Hall. Squared and coursed rubble with contrasting pink granite long and short quoins and margins. Granite ashlar base course. Decoratively-astragalled, voussoired, pointed arch windows and transom lights, chamfered reveals. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: gabled elevations to N and S each with centre bay comprising 6-panelled 2-leaf timber door and transom light below similar triangular window, flanking square headed lights blocked; bellcote to N gable. E elevation with 4 large windows, W blind. Multi-pane decoratively-astragalled glazing. Grey slates. Coped ashlar skews with flat skewputts. INTERIOR: fine little altered interior with pulpit at centre of E wall and 5-sided gallery (running E-W) on Greek Doric columns. Simple box pews, panelled gallery and decorative cast iron oil lamp fittings. Pulpit with flanking steps, and 5-sided ogee capped sounding board. Small (later) pipe organ fronting pulpit. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. This simple, unaltered church boasts a well-detailed interior of some quality. Although Hay refers to a 'Plan by Mr Daniel Hay', the coincidence of date with John Smith's Keig Parish Church, and the almost identical bellcote suggest the hand of this important Aberdeen architect. Furthermore, during 1835 Smith was working on nearby Candacraig House, one of the glen houses connected with the Forbes family. The Fasti report notes that there was a 'mission maintai

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.