Glen Rinnes Church Of Scotland

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/11/1987 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Parish Mortlach NGR NJ 27818 33665 Coordinates 327818, 833665 — Matthews and Mackenzie, Aberdeen; dated 1883. Simple rectangular Gothic church with 5-bay buttressed long N and S elevations; gabled entrance porch at NW and minister's room entrance at E gable. Pinned tooled pink Ben Rinnes granite; tooled granite dressings. Pointed-headed windows in long elevations; triple lancets light W gable and rose window E gable; square leaded glazing. Apex finials; ridge bellcote at W with cusped facets and fish-scale slate to small spire with cast-iron weathervane; slate roof; red pottery ridge. INTERIOR: all original fittings and decoration. Pulpit at E with finialled backboard and finialled and cusped front; decorative cast-iron balustrading to chancel enclosure with clerk's desk fronted by communion table. Gallery at W with balustraded front; pine dado with stencilled frieze; pine pews. Braced pine roof. Low coped wall with decorative cast-iron railings and matching pedestrian gate to road frontage; coped rubble wall elsewhere. War memorial stands by entrance gate. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Present building replaced earlier church of 1813, probably on site of present burial ground. Now rarely used (1986). Quoad Sacra parish of Glen Rinnes constituted in 1865. Neighbouring burial ground not included in listing. Listed Category B for furnishings.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.