Braemar Parish Church, Clunie Bank Road, Braemar

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1991 Local Authority Aberdeenshire Planning Authority Aberdeenshire Parish Crathie And Braemar National Park Cairngorms NGR NO 15004 91304 Coordinates 315004, 791304 — Dated 1869. Gothic cruciform church with apse, pinnacled 2-storey tower and stone spire, and baptistery. Snecked granite rubble with contrasting ashlar dressings, base course. Buttressing. Trefoil headed opening. N ELEVATION: low gabled projection with triple lancets, star window in apex and decorative finial. Tall gabled transept to E with triple cusped lancets and star window above. Tower to left. S ELEVATION: mirror of N elevation, but with curved baptistery projection to left. W ELEVATION: gable end with projecting gabled porch with pointed arch boarded door, decorative ironmongery. Flanking lancets, multifoil window above. Decorative masonry finials to gable apex. TOWER: to NE corner, 2 stage tower with spire. Lancets to tall 1st stage, louvred lights to belfry above with angled margins and angled pinnacles. Gabled clock panels to each face at base of spire. Broached spire with coronet and weathervane. Grey slate, small gablet ventilators near ridge. Diamond glazing pattern, stained glass to apse, remainder with red painted glass surrounds. Cast iron rainwater goods with dated hoppers. INTERIOR: restrained ecclesiastical interior, body of church painted with large gothic arch leading to apse. Timber hammerbeam ceiling springing from stone corbels Polished marble columns support double pointed arches to transepts. Timber pews, prominent carved pulpit to apse. Carved oak communion table. — This building is still in ecclesiastical use, and is the parish church for Braemar. It was formerly the Free Church. Architecturally the church is a fashionable Victorian Gothic. The archi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.