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Parish church, still in ecclesiastical use, built by Andrew Wilson, Banff, architect and builder, in 1790, with the design based on St Andrew's Church in Dundee. The tower and spire were added by William Robertson, Elgin, in 1828-29, and completed by Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, in 1849. Inside, the apse was built and the interior re-cast by Jeffrey Waddell and Young, Glasgow, in 1927. The church building is rectangular and harled, with ashlar margins and dressings. The long south elevation is five-bay, with regular fenestration that was largely re-modelled in 1927. The windows are round-arched, key-stoned, and with blocked imposts. The ground-floor has paired small lights, and three large similarly shaped mullioned and transomed windows in the centre of the first floor. The east gable has a bowed ashlar apse, fronted in the south-east re-entrant angle by single pitch entrance porch. There is a deep moulded wallhead cornice and slate roofs. The spire is constructed from tooled and polished ashlar. It is a tall Gibbsian spire, rising above a two-stage Roman Doric pilastered tower with its base as a porch, served by round-arched north and south entrances. There are clock faces in each face, below the three-stage octagonal spire with louvred oval openings terminating as a tapering, facetted steeple with blind oculi lucarnes. Inside, there is a gallery to the west, a chancel and semi-circular apse, communion table, pulpit and font, also from 1927. The chancel and apse has marble paving, and is lit by three stained glass windows from circa 1927 by Stephen Adam Studios. The ceiling is coombed, with a segmental barrel-vault over the chancel. There are various 19th and earlier 20th century mural memorial plaques. Inside the church contains is a hand calligraphy Book of Remembrance for Banff Strike Wing, dedicated in 1989. St Mary's Church Hall is adjacent to the north (NJ66SE0383).
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