Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 27/07/2007 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 94523 06198 Coordinates 394523, 806198 — 1877. 3-bay gabled Gothic church. Pointed-arched openings and distinctive crocketed and saw-toothed decoration to skews terminating in bellcote. Grey granite ashlar with recessed sandstone to clerestory windows. E (entrance) ELEVATION: recessed 2-leaf timber doors to each ground floor bay with decorative cast-iron hinges and moulded surrounds; pointed-arched fanlights above. Central doorway slightly advanced with gabled doorpiece with cross at apex. Above, cinquefoil stained-glass windows with sandstone dressings flank tripartite lancet window with sandstone dressings and vesica to centre set within pointed-arched opening. Small, quatrefoil louvred opening above. 3 large pointed-arched windows with elaborate tracery at S elevation; segmental-arched pend runs underneath building at Theatre Lane. 2 further pointed-arched windows at W elevation. Single sash and case window to N elevation over pend at Theatre Lane. Grey slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: Pointed-arch timber doors to vestibule and main hall. Vestibule wall with fixed-pane leaded glazing. Large hall with simple ribbed plasterwork coombed ceiling. Gallery to E with quartrefoil and dentil decoration; cast-iron supporting columns. Vaulted basement comprising 4 long and shallow brick chambers. — No 50 Marischal Street is a good example of a late 19th century gable-ended church, particularly notable for its unusual crocketed skews and prominent bellcote. The recessed sandstone dressings provide an interesting contrast to the granite. Following the building line of the earlier constructions to either side, the church provides continuity with its 18th century n

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.