Trinity Church, Seafield Street, Whitehills

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Boyndie NGR NJ 65500 65234 Coordinates 365500, 865234 — Alexander Ross, dated 1879, constructed as Trinity United Presbyterian Church, Seafield Street, Banff and removed IN TOTO to present site 1925-6. Gothic. Rectangular church with 6-bay long street (E) elevation. Dark rubble, contrasting tooled and polished ashlar sandstone dressings. Projecting buttressed and gabled porch in extreme left bay (SE) with pointed-headed entrance and plank door with ornate cast-iron hinges. Slim 2-stage angle clock tower abuts porch with conical slate roof. 5 pointed-headed windows light frontage; large geometric traceried window in W gable; shaped pointed-headed window enclosing hexafoil light in N gable with narrow side lights and coloured glazing. Lattice-pane glazing elsewhere. Apex crosses; slate roof with tiled ridge. Single storey vestry projects at rear. INTERIOR: lofty interior with timber braced rafter roof. Cusped panelled pulpit in centre of E wall with cusped and canopied backboard. Cusped panelled face to Communion table. Plain pine pews. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church reconstructed as it stood in Banff except for extra stage to tower to accommodate clock. A handbell dated 1727 and inscribed 'The Town of Whitehills' and a plaque dated 1860 commemmorating the establishment of a lifeboat in Whitehills are displayed in the church.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.