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St Columba's Church Of Scotland, Moss Street, Elgin

A Category B Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6448 / 57°38'41"N

Longitude: -3.3088 / 3°18'31"W

OS Eastings: 321972

OS Northings: 862411

OS Grid: NJ219624

Mapcode National: GBR L86J.10X

Mapcode Global: WH6JF.43NQ

Plus Code: 9C9RJMVR+WF

Entry Name: St Columba's Church Of Scotland, Moss Street, Elgin

Listing Name: Moss Street, St Columba's Church of Scotland

Listing Date: 26 January 1971

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371966

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30833

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Elgin, Moss Street, St Columba's Church Of Scotland

ID on this website: 200371966

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City North

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

P MacGregor Chalmers, 1905-6. Transitional Norman/
Early English Gothic. Cruciform, with additional S aisle
and vestry wing to N. Bullfaced rubble inside and out;
tooled and polished ashlar dressings. Steeply pitched
Cumbrian green slate roof. Triple round-headed lancets
to E and W gables; main entrance in round arched porch
in W gable of S aisle with Romanesque ornamentation to
capitals of engaged pillars.
INTERIOR: nave and S aisle; stylised leaf capitals to S
arcade; tall round arches to choir with interlacing
carved decoration. Simple wooden barrel vaulting to
choir and crossing; braced rafter roof to nave,
transepts and aisle. Stained glass to E gable lancets by
M C Webster for Stephen Adam. Single light in S aisle
by Douglas Strachan.
Fine hexagonal wooden pulpit and tester dated 1684 from
Old St Giles, Elgin. Fluted Ionic pilasters at angles;
richly carved sounding board above and engaged
Corinthian fluted capitals to rear.
Pair oak Ministers' seats, stalls, and holy table all carved
in similar classical vein to pulpit.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Old St Giles Church demolished circa 1926.

Former Item 149 (1981 Revised List).

Organ from St Paul's Church, Perth, installed August 1990.

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