Rutherford Church And Church Hall, Rosemount Place, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 20/03/2000 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 93067 06568 Coordinates 393067, 806568 — Circa 1870. T-plan church with rectangular-plan hall adjoining to W. Tooled coursed granite finely finished to margins. Base course; pointed-arched openings; chamfered reveals; rough-faced angle buttresses; eaves blocking course. S (ROSEMOUNT PLACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; gabled central bay, deeply chamfered glazed former doorway, hoodmould with decorative drip stones, reached by stone steps; 3 windows above, centre window stepped up, triple hoodmould, carved Celtic cross finial to apex; single window to flanking bay to right, crenellated parapet, corbelled angle pinnacle to outer right breaking roofline; 3-stage, square-plan tower adjoining and advanced to outer left, window to 1st stage, glazed boarded timber door to W elevation, decoratively traceried louvred opening to S and W of 2nd stage, stone parapet on dentil mouldings with central clockface flanked by inset trefoils to 3rd stage, louvred gableted lucarnes to each elevation, granite broach spire; iron weathervane finial to apex. Former hall linked to church at outer right by single storey corridor with shouldered windows, 2-bay; tripartite window set in gable of bay to right, vesica in gablehead, flanked to left by pointed-arched doorway slightly advanced breaking eaves, 2-leaf gazed timber door with vertically paned fanlight. E ELEVATION: pointed-arched windows, predominantly obscured by former hall: 5-bay; glazed timber door flanked to left by 2 shouldered bipartite windows in centre bays; gabled bay to outer right, with 2 windows to centre and arrowslit opening set in gablehead; gabled bay to outer left with tripartite window to centre. N ELEVATION: nea

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.