Episcopal Church of St John The Baptist and Burial Ground, Rothiemurchus

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Highland Planning Authority Highland Parish Duthil And Rothiemurchus National Park Cairngorms NGR NH 90035 11158 Coordinates 290035, 811158 — J Ninian Comper, 1929-30. Simple aisleless cruciform church orientated E/W; harled with self-coloured painted rendered margins. Small vestry in NW re-entrant angle. Pointed headed entrance with plank door in centre W gable flanked by 1929 consecration stone; bartizan bellcote corbelled out at apex above. 4-bay flanks with pointed-headed windows with simple Y-tracery, similar fenestration to transepts and chancel; leaded glazing; slate roof. Interior: panelled dado to nave and transepts, filled with pews with carved shaped ends and slender balustraded rail backs; flat carved balusters to communion rails; scarlet damask baldachino. Burial ground; simple burial ground surrounds church. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Plaque inside church records that it is dedicated to memory of John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus 1860-1927. Present building replaced 'iron church' erected in 1904. Though foundation stone for stone church laid in 1913, it was not built until 1929-30.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.