St Mary's Church, South Road, Ellon

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 16/04/1971 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Burgh Ellon NGR NJ 95789 30139 Coordinates 395789, 830139 — G.E. Street 1870-1. Early middle pointed, 106' long, dark granite with lighter dressings, freestone windows and string courses. Aisleless nave canted to narrower chancel, W. piended lean-to narthex with depressed arch enclosing 5 lancets above. 4 2-light windows N. wall, 1 4-light window and 2 2-light S. wall, organ chamber on S., vestry on N.; apsidal chancel, N. spirelet at junction of nave and chancel cleverly broached from square to semi-octagonal and thence to circular. Interior: narthex opens into church by 3 arches, pointed waggon roof with tie rods, good original stone pulpit, coloured marble reredos, 2-seat sedilia with piscina, sacrarium with brass door by Hardman & Co. Glass Clayton and Bell N. side of nave and chancel, inferior Lavers and Barreau S. side of nave. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The rectory was designed by Butterfield but was added to later by another hand and reconstructed c.1926. It is now of little interest.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.