Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Portsoy NGR NJ 58695 65908 Coordinates 358695, 865908 — Dated 1844 and 1870, reconstructed and remodelled, J Russell Mackenzie, architect, Aberdeen. Coursed dark rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. Rectangular church with S facing buttressed entrance gable and spire at SW angle. Centre pointed arch doorway divided by slender pilastered trumeau and with paired lights above transom; pair chevron-planked doors. Wheel window fills gable above entrance; centre entrance flanked by small, shoulder-arched lights, each with dated lintel. Slightly advanced square tower (1870) with stepped diagonal buttresses, rising as octagonal facetted spire from 2nd stage; base of spire with pointed-arched, louvred openings in each face and alternating pinnacle-capped buttresses; lucarnes in upper stages of facetted spire which terminates with cast-iron finial. Long E elevation lit by 3 square-headed 3-light windows; lattice-pane glazing. Side entrance set back at W, leading to parish room linking church with neighbouring manse. Slate roofs. INTERIOR: aisled and galleried interior with timber braced roof; aisle arcade supported by tapering cast-iron cluster columns; organ in gallery. Pulpit against N gable wall with stained glass wheel-window above. 2 circa 1920 stained glass windows W by Walter J Pearce, Manchester. ENCLOSING WALLS; low coped rubble wall fronts church, dividing site from road (and continuous with manse wall). Entrance flanked by bullfaced piers and closed by pair cast-iron gates. Rubble wall at E and N (continuing around manse at W). — Building in ecclesiastical use as such. Former Free Church of Scotland. Window lintels W and E of church door inscribed

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.