St Kentigern's Episcopal Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 16/04/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 14/11/2006 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Ballater National Park Cairngorms NGR NO 36845 95974 Coordinates 336845, 795974 — A Marshall Mackenzie 1907. Single storey gabled church with nave and N aisle set within own grounds with boundary wall. Pink and grey squared and snecked granite with grey granite surrounds. Base course. Rounded dentils under eaves. Predominantly stained glass windows. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: S (street) elevation with gabled entrance porch to far left with round arch doorway and cavetto hoodmoulding and 2-leaf boarded timber door. Angled buttress to right indicates internal line of sanctuary. Decorative crosses on W and E gable points and on coping over sanctuary line. Predominantly slim lancet windows, single, paired or in groups of 3. Grey slate. Raised skews. Wallhead stack to NE. BOUNDARY WALL: random granite rubble with large, rectangular coping. Low at W, S and E. INTERIOR: original interior decoration largely intact. Arcade to N, 3 round arches on circular piers. Small chapel in N. aisle. Barrel vaulted timber ceiling. Oak furnishings, including pews, altar, pulpit and lectern. Wooden parquet flooring. Timber dado around nave and aisle with squared, coursed granite as dado in sanctuary. 20th century stained glass. Octagonal, pedestal baptismal font at north west corner with original working pulley mechanism for lifting font cover. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church is finely detailed and retains much of its original decoration. The current church was built to replace a corrugated iron structure which had been the first Scottish Episcopal Mission to Ballater. Previous to this, the worshippers had met at the Chapel in Glenmui

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.