Parish Church, Fordyce

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Fordyce NGR NJ 55406 63646 Coordinates 355406, 863646 — Dated 1804, renovated and re-cast, 1894. Substantial rectangular church with 4-bay S elevation. Harled, ashlar margins and dressings. Centre round-headed and keystoned entrance with blocked imposts in E and W gables; similarly detailed gallery window above and square loft window in each gable. Regular round-headed keystoned 4-bay fenestration in long S elevation, no windows in N. Multi-pane glazing. Late 19th century vestry window at left of entrance. Circa 1830 bellcote at E gable apex with anthemion angle acroteria and shaped finial; ball finial at W; Banffshire slate roof. 1702 bell. INTERIOR: re-cast and diminished in size, 1894. 5-sided gallery survives, but wall inserted to cut off W portion; new wall fronted by large organ and by communion table; low later 19th century octagonal pulpit stands near site of original pulpit by S wall; plain pews; plank dado. Various plain 19th century mural memorials. ENCLOSING WALLS: coped rubble wall encloses church E and S; pair flat arched entrances in E wall closed with double leaf plank doors. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church dated on skewputts in E gable. Bellcote in style of circa 1830 and probably designed by William Robertson of Elgin who worked extensively for the Heritors, the Earls of Seafield. 1702 bell re-used from Old Church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.