Knockando Parish Church, Upper Knockando

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/01/1971 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Knockando NGR NJ 18643 42881 Coordinates 318643, 842881 — 1757 on site of earlier church, repaired 1832, William Robertson, Elgin; additions and re-modelling John Robertson, Inverness, 1904-6. Harled, tooled ashlar margins and dressings. Original simple rectangular church with long elevations N and S. fronted at S by 1904-6 4-bay aisle. Pointed-headed entrance at SW in gabled bay. 2-stage drumtower in re-entrant angle with belfry in louvred upper stage under conical slated roof. 3 cusped 2-light windows in centre of S elevation with further large traceried window breaking wallhead in gabled end bay. Similar 2-light fenestration in 4-bay N elevation. Apse at E gable; pointed-headed entrance in E return gable of S aisle. Small single storey bowed vestry projects at W. Apex crosses; slate roofs. INTERIOR: re-modelled interior with Gothic detailing. E apse houses organ; richly carved communion table and pulpit, with bas-relief panels. Cluster pedestal to pulpit, Gothic detailing to handrail. S aisle accommodates wide gallery, further gallery at W, both with cusped panelled front; pine pews. Braced rafter roof. Single stained glass window in N wall bay, Douglas Strachan, circa 1917. WATCH HOUSE: small rectangular early 19th century, harl pointed rubble watch house with doorway in gable and single window. Local slate roof. BURIAL GROUND: large irregular rubble walled burial ground; rubble wall with tooled cope (1822). Pair carriage entrances at E, each with bullfaced rubble gatepiers and pair spearhead cast-iron gates. Mainly 19th and 20th century tombstones. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Symbol stones set against E wall of burial ground are Scheduled Monuments. Enlarged 1904-5

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.