South Church, Cameron Street, Stonehaven

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/11/1980 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Stonehaven NGR NO 87142 85743 Coordinates 387142, 785743 — James Souttar, 1868-9; alterations, including addition of new gallery and seating, 1896; church hall added 1897. Tall single stage, single bay, Greek cross-plan, Gothic church with 2-stage, pyramidal-roofed stair tower in re-entrant angle, curvilinear-traceried window and fine interior. Small blocks of roughly squared and snecked coursed rubble with ashlar margins, some stugged; tower of larger blocks of snecked squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Base and band courses. Single stage, broad, clasping buttresses of shallow projection. Voussoirs, stop-chamfered reveals, raked cills. Vertically-boarded 2-leaf timber doors. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: cross-finialled gable to street with large 4-light traceried window, flanked by blocked tiny rectangular openings at springing point of arch; steps up to deep-set door in small gabled porch projecting at left, and tower to right with door, flanking buttresses and 2-light traceried window at 1st stage giving way to modillioned cornice and pyramid roof. W ELEVATION: advanced gable with 2-light traceried window behind external secondary glazing, and tower in re-entrant angle to left comprising small window at 1st stage and 2-light traceried window above. Door in low link section projecting at outer right. Diamond-pattern leaded glazing with painted margins; stained glass memorial window to S. Grey slates. Stepped ashlar skews with mitre skewputts. Diminutive triangular louvered roof ventilators and base of polygonal spire? at crossing. INTERIOR: good decorative scheme in place incorporating fixed timber pews, vertically-boarded timber dadoes, N gallery on 4 iron columns wit

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.