St Cyrus Uf Church, Main Road, St Cyrus

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 12/05/2003 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish St Cyrus NGR NO 74733 64928 Coordinates 374733, 764928 — 1844. Simple gothic former church with aisless 4-bay nave and 3-stage tower, and later small hall. Stugged squared and snecked rubble with droved ashlar dressings. Deep base course. Voussoired, stop-chamfered, deeply-moulded doorpiece; 2-stage sawtooth-coped angle buttresses; hoodmoulds and label stops; stone mullions and chamfered reveals. NW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with large hoodmoulded 3-light raised-centre window set into tracery-effect panel; stone Celtic cross finial at gablehead. Tower (see below) set-back at outer right. TOWER: NW face with steps up to hoodmoulded, 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges and traceried fanlight, 2 closely-set lights to W and further single light to S, 2nd stage with square-headed bipartite window to N, W and S. Each face of 3rd stage with hoodmoulded louvered tripartite opening set into panel and surmounted by cornice with stylised corbel at centre and crenellated parapet above with pinnacled angles. SW ELEVATION: finialled gable with raised-centre tripartite window projecting to right of centre, 3 windows set-back to left and tower (see above) to outer left. Lower slightly set-back small hall to outer right with disabled access to shoulder-arched door at left and bipartite window to right. NE ELEVATION: finialled gable with raised-centre 3-light window to left, 4 windows set-back to right and 3 square-headed windows to lower bay at outer left. SE ELEVATION: advanced finialled gable to centre with small traceried circular window over later, projecting, asymmetrically-fenestrated bays close to boundary wall. Decoratively-astragalled trace

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.