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Latitude: 57.5269 / 57°31'36"N
Longitude: -3.2075 / 3°12'26"W
OS Eastings: 327786
OS Northings: 849170
OS Grid: NJ277491
Mapcode National: GBR L8FT.Z95
Mapcode Global: WH6K1.P2TM
Plus Code: 9C9RGQGV+Q2
Entry Name: Rothes Kirk, Rothes
Listing Name: High Street/Seafield Square, Rothes Parish Church (Church of Scotland)
Listing Date: 26 January 1971
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 386369
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB40440
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Rothes, Rothes Kirk
ID on this website: 200386369
Location: Rothes
County: Moray
Town: Rothes
Electoral Ward: Speyside Glenlivet
Traditional County: Morayshire
Tagged with: Church building
1780-1. T-plan random rubble church with tooled granite
ashlar dressings and margins. Additions and alterations,
vestry, 1812; heightening, 1868: clock towr, A and W Reid,
1870: internal renovations, 1887.
Long symmetrical N elevation with 4 round-headed windows;
round-headed entrance in E gable and in base of tower at W;
further door now a window in centre of rear bowed wing.
Square tooled ashlar 4-stage clock tower with stages
delineated by moulded string-courses, 3rd stage with clasped
pilasters and tall louvred openings with shallow stage above
with clock faces breaking wallhead under semi-circular
cornice; pyramidal spire with banded decorative fishscale
slating and cast-iron weathervane.
Small projecting rear single storey vestry with canted gable. Lattice-pane glazing; slate roofs, piended on rear bowed
wing.
INTERIOR: renovated 1887 retaining traditional layout grouped
around central pulpit fronting organ (1894) in centre of N
wall; panelled front to 5-sided gallery with cusped
detailing.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such.
Building said to incorporate some materials from former
parish church which stood in present burial ground. Church
building financed by Earl of Findlater. Clock originally
on Nairn Town Hall, repaired and gifted to church by Nairn
jeweller, Mr Charles Spark, formerly of Rothes.
Harling removed in 1954 and walls re-pointed.
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