Hill Church Of Rosehearty

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Pitsligo NGR NJ 93438 66285 Coordinates 393438, 866285 — A.Marshall Mackenzie, 1890 incorporating Forbes loft of 1634 (from old church). Tall cruciform Gothic church with shallow canted apse at E gable. Pale squared granite with dark pinnings (Aberdeen bonding), tooled granite dressings. Gable entrance porch projects at SW with double-leaf door and ornate cast-iron hinges. Intersecting Y-traceried windows light 3-bay nave, N and S aisle windows with simple Y-tracery in gables; cusped lancets in apse; tall, paired 2-light windows in W gable. Bellcote at W gable apex capped by slender miniature spire with clasping slender pinnacles and cast-iron decorative weathervane; re-hung 1798 bell. Lattice-pane glazing. Steeply pitched slate roofs. INTERIOR: simple lofty interior with barrel vaulted timber roof. S aisle houses profusely carved and dated 1634 Forbes loft; richly carved front under equally richly carved and crested canopy with carved cartouche and spiked ball finials supported by slender Ionic columns; with panelled interior and cusped and pendant details. Richly carved doorpiece with flanking screen. S aisle panelled ceiling incorporates re-used pendants and other carved fragments and panels; raked seating. PULPIT: simple 1890 wooden pulpit on a pedestal approached by staircase with turned balusters; facets of pulpit incorporate re-used 17th century carved wooden panels, one dated 1634, another initialled MT. WAR MEMORIAL: carved and inscribed wooden panel in style of A.Marshall Mackenzie. Cornice supports kneeling angels with inscribed scroll stretched between them. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Forbes loft built in 1634 (dated) and installed in 1634 S

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.