North Parish Church, Cluny Square, Buckie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 25/04/1989 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Buckie NGR NJ 42570 65629 Coordinates 342570, 865629 — Duncan MacMillan, architect, 1878-9. Substantial Gothic church; rectangular with S entrance gable and square 4-stage tower at SW. Tooled rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Slightly projecting gabled centre entrance in S gable with 2 doors divided by chamfered trumeau, V-tracery in fanlight above. Double-leaf plank doors with ornate cast-iron hinges. Large centre 5-light geometric traceried window above with flanking stepped buttress at right terminating as wallhead pinnacle; narrow outer right single pointed-headed plate traceried window. 4-stage tower with diagonal stepped buttresses; simple lancets in ground stage, triple lancets in 2nd stage, large louvred plate traceried windows in 3rd stage and clock faces in 4th stage with angle pinnacles supporting simplified finialled crown. Buttressed 5-bay W elevation with narrow lights. Rose window in N gable. Cross apex at S gable; slate roof with small triangular louvred vents. INTERIOR: lofty interior galleried around 3 sides, gallery with cusped panelled front supported by slender painted cast-iron columns. Organ at N gable fronted by cusped panelled pulpit reached by flight of stairs and fronted by seating and communion table; mainly lattice-pane glazing. Braced rafter roof rising from corbel-heads. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Built on site of and replacing earlier church designed by William Robertson, Elgin, 1834. Corner site with Cluny Square. Modern extension at rear of church not included in listing.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.