King Edward Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/11/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish King Edward NGR NJ 71566 57935 Coordinates 371566, 857935 — A & W Reid, Elgin, 1848. Rectangular harled church with gothic detailing, tooled ashlar dressings and margins. Building orientated E/W: W entrance gable with centre, slightly recessed pointed-headed door within shallow advanced saw-tooth gabled doorpiece. Flanking narrow pointed-headed and hoodmoulded lancets. Substantial, square tooled ashlar belfry corbelled out from front gable and with panelled base, each face pierced by paired hoodmoulded louvred vents; simple pyramidal stone roof with small lucarne in each face and apex finial. 4-bay long N and S elevation lit by hoodmoulded plate Y-traceried, windows with vesicas. Rear vestry projecting from N gable. Lattice-pane leaded glazing; angle buttresses; slate roof. INTERIOR: plain interior with 3 sided gallery supported by slender painted cast-iron columns. Gallery front embellished by moulded beading with fleu-de-lis detailing. Raised pulpit with panelled back-board approached by steps. 1914 Communion Table. ENCLOSING WALLS AND WAR MEMORIAL: church enclosed by low coped rubble wall; SW angle occupied by low curved and stepped mural granite war (style of Dr William Kelly) memorial inscribed with names of fallen. — Building in ecclesiastical use as such. Old Church, 1 mile west in valley, inconveniently sited for the majority of the parishioners. The old burial ground is crowded and the new one, just N of parish church, established in 1872.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.