Rothes Kirk, Rothes

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/01/1971 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Rothes NGR NJ 27786 49170 Coordinates 327786, 849170 — 1780-1. T-plan random rubble church with tooled granite ashlar dressings and margins. Additions and alterations, vestry, 1812; heightening, 1868: clock towr, A and W Reid, 1870: internal renovations, 1887. Long symmetrical N elevation with 4 round-headed windows; round-headed entrance in E gable and in base of tower at W; further door now a window in centre of rear bowed wing. Square tooled ashlar 4-stage clock tower with stages delineated by moulded string-courses, 3rd stage with clasped pilasters and tall louvred openings with shallow stage above with clock faces breaking wallhead under semi-circular cornice; pyramidal spire with banded decorative fishscale slating and cast-iron weathervane. Small projecting rear single storey vestry with canted gable. Lattice-pane glazing; slate roofs, piended on rear bowed wing. INTERIOR: renovated 1887 retaining traditional layout grouped around central pulpit fronting organ (1894) in centre of N wall; panelled front to 5-sided gallery with cusped detailing. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Building said to incorporate some materials from former parish church which stood in present burial ground. Church building financed by Earl of Findlater. Clock originally on Nairn Town Hall, repaired and gifted to church by Nairn jeweller, Mr Charles Spark, formerly of Rothes. Harling removed in 1954 and walls re-pointed.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.