St Mary of The Assumption, Fife Street, Dufftown

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Dufftown NGR NJ 32734 39897 Coordinates 332734, 839897 — CHURCH: Rev Walter Lovi, 1825 enlarged 1925. Rectangular church orientated N-S. Grey rubble granite, tooled sandstone dressings. 3-bay S entrance gable (facing street) with bays delineated by buttresses rising above crenellated wallhead (pinnacles missing) as flanking archways each side of church. 3 pointed-headed windows with intersecting tracery and centre gablet oculus; apex cross. Plain 3-bay flanks with N end bay lit by oculi. Local slate roof. INTERIOR: simple groin vaulted interior with ribs rising from carved corbel stones; extended 1925 chancel with panelled dado and joisted timber ceiling. Green and white marble altar with oak canopy (both by John Devlin). Gallery across S end of church housing organ; bowed front supported by 4 slender cast-iron columns; slender turned balusters supporting moulded rail. HALL: mid 19th century church hall flanks church at E. Harled with ashlar dressings. S frontage with large centre transomed and mullioned window flanked left by smaller window and right by door, all hoodmoulded; multi-pane glazing. centre keystoned niche in gablet; apex bellcote. GATEPIERS: bull-faced granite gatepiers with simple caps; decorative wrought- and cast-iron pedestrian gate under decorative overthrow. Flanking coped bullfaced retaining walls. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Presbytery, completely remodelled in 1930's, not included in listing. Hall was school.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.