Gardner Parish Church, 61 Duff Street, Macduff

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/02/1982 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Macduff NGR NJ 70610 64490 Coordinates 370610, 864490 — A.Marshall Mackenzie, dated 1899. Rectangular church on sloping site built over raised basement with principal gable and flanking tower to Duff Street. Dark whinstone, contrasting tooled and polished ashlar dressings. W gable lit by large pointed-headed window with intersecting tracery. 3-stage tower with spire slightly set back at SW with pointed-headed recessed entrance in base closed by double-leaf plank doors with ornate cast-iron hinges. Pointed headed mullioned and transom windows in each face of upper stage of tower; corbelled wallhead with angle water spouts; slender square slated pyramidal spire with apex cast-iron weathervane. 5-bay long elevations with additional gabled porch in S to Clergy Street. Canted east end; cross finial at gable apices; slate roof. INTERIOR: simple galleried interior; canted E end with organ fronted by cusped panelled pulpit. 3-sided gallery with panelled front; simple chequered coloured glazing except at E where windows have some coloured glazing. Pine pews and plank dado. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Former Free Church of Scotland.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.