South and West Church, Buckie

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 01/07/2019 Local Authority Moray Burgh Buckie NGR NJ 42650 65446 Coordinates 342650, 865446 — Description: Church A broad-plan church in the Early English Gothic style by Alexander and William Reid, built in 1849-50 as a Free Church. Located on a prominent corner site on Buckie High Street, the northwest corner has a tall three-stage tower with a broached spire. There are gabled single-storey, rectangular-plan halls dating to 1849 (formerly the Free Church School) adjoining the rear (east) elevation. The buildings are constructed of rubble sandstone with ashlar rybats and dressings. It is currently (2019) in use as a place of worship (Church of Scotland). There is a pitched and slated roof with ashlar stone skews, pedimented skew putts and a small bellcote finial to the east gable. The window openings are largely tall, narrow lancets with angled ashlar cills, continuous moulded cill courses, simple hoodmouldings and latticed glazing. The door openings are recessed pointed-arched openings with moulded surrounds, plain transoms and timber-boarded doors with decorative hinges. The interior of the church was renovated in 1885 and the majority of the surviving fittings date from this period, including the timber pews, flooring, the moulded ceiling and the decorative cast iron stair rail. The church has a sanctuary and pulpit to the east, with a U-plan 1850 gallery to the other three sides which is carried on slender cast iron columns, with a corbelled cornice and decorative timber panelling. The 1900-01 organ on the north wall is by Wadsworth & Brother of Manchester. A large stained glass roundel under the gallery dates to around 1930 and was relocated from the former West church in 1997 when the congregations merged. Church Hall This former Free Church

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.