Edinkillie Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/01/1971 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Edinkillie NGR NJ 01985 46579 Coordinates 301985, 846579 — 1741, renovated 1813. Simple rectangular church with long 6- bay S elevation. Harled with ashlar margins and dressings. 3 irregular piended or gabled projections at rear, with entrances in outer return re-entrant angles with window above, and housing stairwell and vestry. Later single keystoned oculus in outer bays. 6 square-headed symmetrical windows in S elevation; round-headed keystoned gallery window with block imposts lights each gable. Multi-pane glazing; simple bellcote at W gable, finial at E; slate roof. Mural memorial plaque at base of W gable. INTERIOR: galleried interior to 3 sides, narrow at S and largely infilled by 1941 organ. Panelled demi-octagonal pulpit in centre S wall with similarly shaped sounding board; panelled back-board with flanking fluted pilasters. Plain pine pews; simple shallow panelling to gallery front; 1941 Communion table. Simple pine dado to entrance passage accommodating re-set stone armorial dated 166?6, initialled MD and with worn inscription. WATCH HOUSE- early 19th century rubble hexagonal watch house with centre door in N face and flanking windows; rear wallhead stack; facetted local slate roof; apex ball finial. Former manse garden wall abuts watch house each side. BURIAL GROUND: drystone wall encloses burial ground; squat round rubble piers flank entrance with round stone caps. 18th and 19th century tombstones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Re-set armorial in church initialled MD (Mark?) Dunbar with Dunbar coat of arms. The Dunbars owned Dunphail castle during 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. Mural plaque and tomb at W gable to Sir Thomas Dick Lauder of Fountainhall a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.