St Andrew's Episcopal Church, High Street, Banff

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Banff NGR NJ 68897 63908 Coordinates 368897, 863908 — Archibald Simpson, l833-4. Tudor gothic. Polished sandstone ashlar entrance gable frontage, harled rear with ashlar margins and dressings. Hoodmoulded pointed-arch recessed doorway below cusped, traceried and hoodmoulded window; flanking narrow round full-height tourelles rising above gabled wallhead in crocketed pinnacles. 4-bay long return gables lit by long margined pointed-arch windows. 1913 extension at rear of church with re-set hoodmoulded, cusped and traceried window and raised basement accommodated on sloping site; lean-to entrance porch projects at SE dated 1913. Slate roofs. FRONT RAILINGS: renewed spearhead cast-iron railings with urn stiffeners front church and are continuous with rectory. INTERIOR: galleried interior; original pointed-arch panelling to gallery front; gallery area converted for meeting use with seats removed. Original gothic panelled double-leaf doors between lobby and nave. Later l9th century church fittings including Gothic style marble reredos and altar re-sited in 1913 chancel, hexagonal stone font mounted on stumpy cluster columns and poppy-head pews. — Building in ecclesiastical use as such. Front railings renewed circa 1990 in style of earlier railings removed l939-45.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.