Description

1795-6; additions and re-cast, A & W, Elgin, 1888. Plain
rectangular church with 4-bay long S elevation completely
blank N wall, later porch at W gable and vestry at E. Harled,
tooled ashlar margins; tooled rubble additions also with
ashlar dressings.
4 large round-headed windows light S elevation with lattice
-pane glazing and surviving shutter hooks; gallery window at
E; 1795 bellcote at W gable apex and ball finial at E;
local slate roof.
2-storey, single bay porch at W with doorway in N face and
window above; ground and 1st floor windows in W elevation;
2 pane glazing; string course and corniced wallhead.
INTERIOR: re-cast to E; gallery at W with panelled front
(possibly re-used panelling from earlier gallery) supported
by cast-iron columns; organ and pulpit at E end; plain pine
seating and dado; lowered and boarded ceiling.
WALL: church enclosed at N and NW by coped rubble wall;
entrance at NW flanked by simple square gate piers with plain
square caps linked to lower similar end piers by quadrants.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Church sited on mounded, partially moated site formerly

occupied by tower house built by Abbot Thomas of Kinloss

Abbey in 1525, who died there circa 1535. Known as 'Castlehill'

the site was chosen 1795-6 in preference to the earlier church

site because the ground was firm. Earlier church stood in present

burial ground and was reported 'ruinous' in 1795.

Change of Category: B to C(S), 24.3.88

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56617358

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