Rc Church of The Immaculate Conception, Arbuthnott Place, Stonehaven

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 18/08/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Stonehaven NGR NO 87467 85646 Coordinates 387467, 785646 — J Russell Mackenzie, 1877. Small, elaborately-detailed gothic church with 3-bay aisless nave, traceried and arcaded front, shallow gabled transepts, semicircular apse, polygonal baptistry and 4-stage buttressed tower with belfry and octagonal pinnacled spire. Coursed, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Deep base and eaves courses. Traceried circular openings, cusped lancets. 2-stage, sawtooth-coped and pinnacled buttresses. Voussoirs; chamfered reveals and raked cills. Timber doors with decorative ironwork. NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Centre bay with deeply moulded gabled doorway with engaged colonettes, flanking bays each with triple lancet behind colonnade giving way to blind trefoil opening and pinnacled angle buttresses; cross-finialled gablehead incorporating wheel window within arched opening of deep bisected reveal. TOWER: to SE side. Lancet to SE at 1st stage, reduced blank 2nd stage and circular window to SE of further reduced 3rd stage giving way to pinnacled arcaded belfry and polygonal spire with decorative cast-iron weathervane. SW ELEVATION: paired cusped lancets to right and left of almost full-height apsidal bay at centre, blank baptistry to left and tower set-back in angle at right. NW ELEVATION: 3-bay nave with dividing buttresses to left, transept to right with 2 cusped lancets incorporated into base of wheel window at centre above, and lower baptistery projecting at outer right with 3 windows and door on return to left. SE ELEVATION: mirrors the above but with tower at outer left. Coloured glass to NE traceried window depicting S Margarita; leaded diamond pattern gla

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.