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Church, still in ecclesiastical use, built in 1841 by James Henderson. Also known as New Marnoch Church. The foundation stone was laid by Mr and Mrs Stronach of Ardmeallie, and it opened in 1842 as a non-intrusion church (created by the former congregation of Old St Marnoch's Church (NJ55SE0106), who had left their church in protest following infringement of their right to choose their own minister). It then joined with the Free Church when the Disruption spread in 1843. It is a two-storey hall church, gabled rectangular-plan building constructed from random rubble with ashlar dressings, an eaves course and tall round-arched windows. There is an octagonal four-stage ashlar entrance tower to the south and a single-storey gabled vestry to the north. The entrance to the tower has a four-panelled, two-leaf door with a blinded fanlight en suite and four flanking additional fixed doors. Above are tall, slender round-arched windows in pilastered bays with a cornice. The third stage has a clock with a moulded surround and a bell tower above with eight round-arched louvred narrow openings, an eaves course, a cornice and an ogival lead roof with a wrought-iron weathervane. The entrance tower is flanked by single windows, and there are four windows to the east and west elevations and two smaller windows to the north with stained glass. To the single-storey vestry to the north has been adapted to accommodate the north windows of the nave. There are grey slate roofs with coped ashlar skews, a stack to the vestry and a later brick stack and flue to the north elevation of the nave. Inside there is a pulpit to the north with an arcaded balustrade and a panelled sounding board above with a small bracketed canopy. The flanking windows have stained glass with New Testament scenes. A panelled raked gallery is supported on cast-iron columns to three sides and there are painted pews and pine altar furniture. In the entrance hall there are marble memorial plaques to Mr and Mrs Stronach, and Rev D Henry. There is an ashlar coped, random rubble boundary wall. To the south of the church is the Aberchirder war memorial (NJ65SW0025). The church was reunited with Old St Marnoch Church as Church of Scotland in 1929, although the congregations remained separate until 1953.
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