St Michael's Roman Catholic Chapel, Tomintoul

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Kirkmichael (Moray) National Park Cairngorms NGR NJ 16979 18509 Coordinates 316979, 818509 — George Mathewson, Dundee, dated 1837. Later alterations. Cruciform Gothic church. Harled with granite margins and dressings. Orientated E/W with main entrance in W gable, now re-cast internally with church entrance porch in SE re-entrant. Pointed-head to W gable main door with fanlight and plaque above in slightly advanced centre bay; flanking long narrow pointed-headed windows with one above; stumpy gabled belfry with angle pilasters, stone crosses and louvred vents. Some lattice-pane glazing. 3-storey presbytery incorporated in building, accommodated in E arm of cross. Projecting glazed timber porch masks presbytery entrance in centre 2-bay E gable, lit by pointed-headed sash windows. Small single storey gabled wing at NE. Tomintoul slate roof. INTERIOR: simple galleried interior re-cast and altered in 1939. Low rubble enclosing walls with burial ground to W. Pedestrian entrance at W flanked by simple gatepiers. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Plaque over west door reads: "Deo sub tutela B. Maria Virginis et B. Michaelis Archangeli Dedicata MDCCCXXXVII". Built on site of earlier church constructed 1788.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.