Aberlour Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Aberlour NGR NJ 26566 42975 Coordinates 326566, 842975 — Various builds and architects from 1838-40 on site of and probably including fragments of 1812 nave destroyed by fire 1861. Neo-Norman 5-bay rectangular church with tower at W with entrance porch, apse at E. Mixed pinned granite with extensive use of contrasting tooled sandstone dressings. Tower: dated 1840, William Robertson, Elgin, with later upper crenellated clock stage. Round-headed entrance in centre, similar detailed round-headed upper windows. Raised addition with dummy angle bartizans, paired round-headed louvred vents and clockface in each elevation. NAVE: George Petrie, 1861. 5-bay N and S elevations with bays 1,3,5, as shallow recesses, delineated by long-short dressed pilasters and decorative corbelling. Round-headed windows; nook shafts, chevron mouldings and hoodmoulds decorate fenestration in bays 2 and 4. APSE AND VESTRY: 1833-5, J and W Wittet in consultation with Sir David Y Cameron, RA. Apse with 3 round-headed windows at E gable; vestry projects at NE, both additions in neo-Norman style. End stack at E; slate roof. INTERIOR: remodelled 1933-5, also J & W Wittet with Sir David Y Cameron. Round-headed arch to apse flanked by similar arches (blind at right, housing organ loft) with attenuated nook shafts with cushion capitals to chancel; similar blind arcading detailing to W gallery front (re-used from 1861 gallery) and to facetted pulpit and communion table (both 1933). 1933 pews flank centre aisle. Stained glass in apse windows (centre by Gordon Webster); lattice-pane to nave; multi-pane glazing to tower fenestration. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Nave of 1812 church destroyed by fire 1861. Renovat

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.