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Site of church, also known as Cruden West Church or Hatton Free Church, built in 1885 as a United Free Church, but later joined with the Church of Scotland. Fire damaged in February 2015, and subsequently demolished. It was stone built, harled with pink granite dressings, and slate roof. The main elevation was the south gable, which had a large square-plan tower at the southwest angle and rose to a narrower belfry stage topped by a slated, slender pyramidal spire. On the north side of the gable was a tall buttress with gabled pinnacle with small stone cross finial and in the gablehead was a quatrefoil datestone. The outside west wall of the church bore a World War I memorial plaque (NK03NW0045). It is not known if this survived the fire or demolition. The church was founded by the grandparents of Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch: his grandfather was the reverend Patrick Murdoch and his grandmother laid the foundation stone, the family later emigrating to Australia.
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