Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Seafield Avenue, Keith

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/02/1972 Local Authority Moray Planning Authority Moray Burgh Keith NGR NJ 43066 50930 Coordinates 343066, 850930 — Alexander Ross, Inverness, 1882. Gothic, cruciform church with tower. Rubble, contrasting tooled sandstone dressings and margins. Principal entrance in base of 3-stage tower at SW; pointed-headed hoodmoulded doorway; wide pointed-headed louvred openings in upper stage with stiff leaf capitals to nook-shafts, corbelled wallhead, angle water spouts, parapet, pyramidal slate roof and apex cast-iron weathervane. Triple stepped lancets under continuous hoodmould light E gable; substantial window with geometric tracery in W gable. Single and paired lancets in 7-bay flanks and tall narrow lancets in transepts. Cross finials; slate roofs. INTERIOR: entrance lobby in base of tower. Nave and chancel with open timber roof, principal rafters supported by corbel stones; some stained glass. ENCLOSING WALLS: building surrounded by coped rubble walls, low at street frontage. Pair slender cast-iron gatepiers flank entrance with pair spearhead cast-iron gates. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Amongst fittings the church contains a simple wooden table which is all that survives from an early Episcopal chapel at Rosarie (between Keith and Mulben) and 'Seabury chair' used by Bishop Kilgour when he consecrated Bishop Seabury as first bishop of the American Episcopal church, Aberdeen 1784. Present church replaced earlier 'small, plain building' of 1808 at rear of Land Street.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.