Parish Church, Boyndie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Boyndie NGR NJ 64149 63862 Coordinates 364149, 863862 — 1773 with later additions and alterations. Simple rectangular church, harled with tooled ashlar margins and dressings. 6 plain square-headed windows regularly spaced in S elevation, each window checked for exterior shutters, 2 shutter hooks surviving each side; round-headed gallery window in each gable, also with shutter hooks; the E gallery window lengthened to light E end of re-cast interior. Bellcote at W gable; ball finial at E; slate roof. Single storey, 2-bay rear vestry. Gabled porch dated 1922 projects from W gable. INTERIOR: plain interior re-cast to E. Late 19th century pulpit, communion table and organ at E; gallery at W; plank dado; plain pews. Simple lattice-pane glazing with some coloured glass, probably of late 19th century date. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church constructed on present site as being more 'central and convenient; in 1773, superseding the earlier church at Inverboyndie. A fine chair in the church is dated 1733 and initialled IA for Rev John Anderson, Minister of Boyndie, 1738-51. Former Boyndie Parish Church (Church of Scotland).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.