Ferryhill United Free Church, Ferryhill Road, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category B Group Category Details 100000020 Date Added 06/03/1992 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 93745 05068 Coordinates 393745, 805068 — Duncan McMillan, 1873-1874. Early gothic, basilica-plan church; gallery additions D and J R McMillan, 1896. Tooled coursed grey granite with finely finished margins. Base course; contrasting pale grey granite band courses; pointed-arched openings; long and short quoins; eaves course. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; gabled; gableted 1883 porch advanced to centre of ground floor, moulded pointed-arch supported on dwarf columns with stiff-leaf capitals, decoratively glazed trefoil piercing tympanum, 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative hinges set in shouldered doorway with chevroned lintel; small windows flanking porch to left and right; large rose window centred in gablehead above with cusped geometric sandstone tracery; stone finial to apex. Roof swept down over slightly stepped back aisle bay to left, bipartite window with roundel above. Square-plan, 3-stage tower adjoining to outer right, bipartite window to centre and right return, shouldered doorway in relieving arch with boarded timber door to left return at 1st stage, window to each elevation of 2nd stage, louvred bipartite opening to each elevation of 3rd stage, gableted clock faces between pinnacles at base of octagonal stone spire, small triangular lucarnes with trefoil details half way up spire, gilded crucifix to apex. W ELEVATION: asymmetrical; tower adjoining to outer left, regularly spaced bipartite windows in buttressed bays, predominantly obscured by church hall. S ELEVATION: semi-circular apse to centre of gabled chancel, 2 pairs of bipartite windows, window flanking apse to left and right, blind bull's-eye o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.