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St Michael's, Northfield Terrace, Elgin

A Category B Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6471 / 57°38'49"N

Longitude: -3.3192 / 3°19'8"W

OS Eastings: 321359

OS Northings: 862669

OS Grid: NJ213626

Mapcode National: GBR L85H.VNH

Mapcode Global: WH6JD.Z2M0

Plus Code: 9C9RJMWJ+R8

Entry Name: St Michael's, Northfield Terrace, Elgin

Listing Name: Northfield Terrace, St Michael's (Former Episcopalian) Rectory with Garden Walls

Listing Date: 6 March 1990

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 372092

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30921

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Elgin, Northfield Terrace, St Michael's

ID on this website: 200372092

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

Tagged with: Clergy house

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Description

Late 19th century. Substantial 2-storey and attic, L-plan
gabled rectory with Elizabethan details. Squared and
snecked bull-faced sandstone rubble with ashlar
dressings; base course, relieving arches, stone mullions
and transoms, and hoodmoulds to attic windows. Moulded
architraves.
3-bay entrance elevation with broad gable over bays to
centre and right, narrower gable to left; door at centre
with 2-leaf doors and fanlight, ogee-carved lintel and
severe hoodmould, block keystone and label stops; single
window at 1st floor above; paired bipartites flanking to
left of centre at ground with 1st floor bipartite; canted
window to right of centre with ashlar half-piend roof at
ground, bipartite at 1st floor; 4-light attic window
spanning centre and outer right bays. Blank panel in
gablehead to outer left.
Side elevation: 2 2-storey and attic bays under broad
gable to left, comprised of 6-light window to right in
rectangular projection with buttressed angles and ashlar
balcony- parapet above, 2 widely spaced windows to left:
1 bipartite 1st floor window to left, French door and
window onto balcony to right; 4-light attic window at
centre. 2 2-storey bays to rear wing extending to right,
with bipartite windows at ground to left and each bay at
1st floor, 2 single windows at ground to outer right.
Sash and case windows with plate glass glazing to lower
sashes and multi-pane to upper; multi-pane casement
windows to attic. Grey slates; overhanding eaves with
plain timber barge boards. Moulded coping to end and
ridge stacks.
RETAINING WALLS: ashlar coped, sandstone rubble retaining
walls.

Statement of Interest

Possibly by W Reid: the similarities with the work of

R Rowand Anderson in the Edinburgh area may have permeated

to Elgin through Reid's brother, Charles Reid of Wardrop

and Reid (David Walker).

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