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Latitude: 57.6461 / 57°38'46"N
Longitude: -3.3151 / 3°18'54"W
OS Eastings: 321599
OS Northings: 862561
OS Grid: NJ215625
Mapcode National: GBR L85J.43L
Mapcode Global: WH6JF.12NQ
Plus Code: 9C9RJMWM+CX
Entry Name: Elgin South Parish Church, Moray Street, Elgin
Listing Name: Moray Street, South High Church, (Church of Scotland)
Listing Date: 20 August 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 371963
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30831
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Elgin, Moray Street, Elgin South Parish Church
ID on this website: 200371963
Location: Elgin
County: Moray
Town: Elgin
Electoral Ward: Elgin City South
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Church building
A and W Reid, 1852-54. 1st pointed Gothic. 5-bay
rectangular church orientated N/S. Coursed rubble with
ashlar dressings. 3-stage tower; tooled facetted spire
with lucarnes on alternate faces. Stepped angle
buttresses; entrance under pointed moulded head at
north, small lancets in lower stage, paired belfry
openings in 3rd stage with clock above in each face;
2-light windows on gable with outer buttresses and
crocketted finials. Narrow cusped lancets with
hoodmoulds alternated by buttresses to each flank; slate
roof.
INTERIOR: braced rafter ceiling; U-shaped gallery
supported by slender hexagonal iron columns with plaster
capitals; panelled balustrade with Gothic motif and
painted plaster frieze of entwined leaves and buds.
Later 19th century small church room added to S gable.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Former Elgin South Free Church.
Former Item 147 (1981 Revised List).
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