Saint John's Church and Chapel Well, Longside

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Longside NGR NK 04003 47183 Coordinates 404003, 847183 — William Hay, 1853. Early pointed, some very individual detail. Squared granite rubble 4-bay nave with low lean-to harthex, S.W. porch, clerestory of 1 and 2 windows alternately. Central tower with lean-to aisles, no transepts; 2-light belfry stage windows, crowstepped saddleback roof octagonal stair turret reaching half way up middle stage only, short chancel with 3 stepped E. lancets. Interior: square nave piers with stop chamfers, arches have chamfer dying to square at springing. Plain sedilia, rich reredos of 5 cusped and gabled lancets with sculpture illustrating life of Christ (1875). — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. For Wm. Hay see notes to St. James Episcopal Church Cruden. Designed when home on a brief visit to his mother in Peterhead (for whom he designed) 22 Broad Street) after practising in Montreal and Chicago. Returned to North America thereafter practising chiefly in Toronto and Bermuda until 1864 when he settled in Edinburgh.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.