St Mary's Episcopal Church, Aberdeen

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 12/01/1967 Supplementary Information Updated 06/12/2000 Local Authority Aberdeen Planning Authority Aberdeen Burgh Aberdeen NGR NJ 92866 05949 Coordinates 392866, 805949 — Rev F G Lee and Alexander Ellis, 1862-1864; hall and vestry Arthur Clyne, 1904-1905; chancel rebuilt A Ross, 1952. Single storey, simple medieval-plan gothic church. Coursed coloured Aberdeen bond granite rubble, finely finished to margins. Red Tyrebagger granite base course; tooled grey granite ashlar shallow buttresses to each bay, half height to NW and SE elevations and clasping buttresses with decorative red necks; red, yellow grey and dark grey dressings with chamfered reveals; red and grey dividing band courses; red and yellow sandstone eaves course. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled entrance porch advanced to centre of ground floor, deeply chamfered pointed-arched doorway with simple hoodmould, 3 stone steps to 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative iron hinges, 3 small stained glass pointed-arched windows set in tympanum; pointed-arched windows to left and right returns. Decorative rose windows set in slightly recessed pointed arch flanked by 2 tall buttresses, small rose windows flanking to outer left and right. Crowstepped gable with decorative stone cross to apex. SE ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 4-bay; rose window below eaves at each of 3 bays to left, pairs of pointed-arched window between; gabled flush transept flanking to right; ground floor obscured by hall and vestry of 1905, by Arthur Clyne: square-plan with piended roof, canted window to S with pointed-arched window in crowstepped gablet with quatrefoil detail inset to each of 3 facets, hexagonal roof, 3 pointed-arched windows to left and right returns; gableted basket-arched doorway with boarded timb

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.