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Saint John's Church And Chapel Well, Longside

A Category B Listed Building in Longside, Aberdeenshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.5148 / 57°30'53"N

Longitude: -1.9348 / 1°56'5"W

OS Eastings: 404003

OS Northings: 847183

OS Grid: NK040471

Mapcode National: GBR P8LV.S93

Mapcode Global: WH9P2.7CXX

Plus Code: 9C9WG378+W3

Entry Name: Saint John's Church And Chapel Well, Longside

Listing Name: St. John's Episcopal Church, Longside

Listing Date: 16 April 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 341686

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB9419

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Longside, Saint John's Church And Chapel Well

ID on this website: 200341686

Location: Longside

County: Aberdeenshire

Electoral Ward: Central Buchan

Parish: Longside

Traditional County: Aberdeenshire

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

William Hay, 1853. Early pointed, some very individual
detail. Squared granite rubble 4-bay nave with low lean-to
harthex, S.W. porch, clerestory of 1 and 2 windows
alternately. Central tower with lean-to aisles, no transepts;
2-light belfry stage windows, crowstepped saddleback roof
octagonal stair turret reaching half way up middle stage
only, short chancel with 3 stepped E. lancets. Interior:
square nave piers with stop chamfers, arches have chamfer
dying to square at springing. Plain sedilia, rich reredos of
5 cusped and gabled lancets with sculpture illustrating life
of Christ (1875).

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. For Wm. Hay see notes to St. James Episcopal Church Cruden. Designed when home on a

brief visit to his mother in Peterhead (for whom he designed)

22 Broad Street) after practising in Montreal and Chicago.

Returned to North America thereafter practising chiefly in

Toronto and Bermuda until 1864 when he settled in Edinburgh.

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