Udny Parish Church

Previously known as Christ's Kirk, it was designed by the Aberdeen city architect John Smith in 1821. In 1890 Alexander Marshall Mackenzie undertook internal restoration work and the roof was replaced. Harrison & Harrison made the pipe organ, which is positioned to the rear of the pulpit. It is of the manual action type. Stained glass panels were placed in the existing three mullioned windows on the north gable in 1927. As there is no burial ground attached to the church, burials took place at the nearby Old Churchyard instead. The closed church was bought from the Church of Scotland after 2022 for £100,000 where it was bought by a retired architecture university lecturer. The cost of…

Constructed from granite in 1821 to the plans of the Aberdeen city architect, John Smith, this was the first of his ecclesiastical designs to utilise a Tudor-Gothic style. The southern elevation has a four-stage tower featuring an arched entrance with a hood mould and a curved window above. The tower protrudes from the main rectangular body of the church, which forms symmetrical gables to either side and features elongated arched windows. A broad slated roof tops the main part of the structure and it has pinnacles on the four outside corners. Similar spires are in each corner of the tower above a crenellated parapet. A clock face is set at the top of the south-facing side of the tower. It…