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Latitude: 57.5876 / 57°35'15"N
Longitude: -3.5735 / 3°34'24"W
OS Eastings: 306027
OS Northings: 856377
OS Grid: NJ060563
Mapcode National: GBR K8JN.ZRK
Mapcode Global: WH5HC.2KM3
Plus Code: 9C9RHCQG+2J
Entry Name: Rafford Parish Church
Listing Name: Rafford Parish Church (Church of Scotland)
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 349237
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB15589
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200349237
Location: Rafford
County: Moray
Electoral Ward: Forres
Parish: Rafford
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Church building
James Gillespie Graham, 1826; alterations and additions, P
MacGregor Chalmers, Glasgow 1907. Gothic. Harl pointed
rubble, tooled and polished ashlar dressings. S gable fronted
by 3-stage tower with entrance at base, each stage delineated
by string course; recessed entrance with Perpendicular Gothic
doorpiece flanked by ashlar dummy facetted lanterns with
crocketted caps. Hoodmoulded pointed-headed traceried window
above; louvred fenestration in upper stage, N, S and W faces
of tower; ashlar balustraded wallhead with substantial
corbelled and crocketted angle pinnacles. 3 large windows
with Perpendicular tracery light to long W elevation, each
window flanked by stepped buttress terminating at wallhead
with substantial crocketted pinnacle. 3 (1907) similar
windows light E elevation, buttressed only in outer bays.
Large hoodmoulded and similarly traceried window in centre of
N gable. Small (1907) hexagonal vestry at NE. Clear quarry
glazing (1907) except for circa 1918 stained glass window at
N. Apex across finial at N gable; slate roof.
INTERIOR: lofty all interior largely remodelled 1907. Cusped
panelled dado encircles interior (made from former gallery
front); cusped panelled pulpit, holy table and rear screen
(all 1907); round-headed entrance (also 1907) into church
from entrance lobby; plain stained pine pews (1907).
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Replaced earlier church sited in present (old) burial ground.
Stained glass window given in memory of Capt H B Galloway,
killed in action, 1915. Clock dated 1907 at rear of church
gifted by Alexander Walker, a native of Rafford, then
President of the Colonial Bank of New York.
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