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Church, still in ecclesiastical use, dated 1839, and attached presbytery, still in use, built in 1864. The church was constructed under the patronage of Lady Carmarthen, who was married to 7th Duke of Leeds who rented Old Mar Lodge from the Earl of Fife, and was built from stones that came from a quarry within 50 feet of the building, which is now a pond to the rear of Inver Cottage (NO19SW0050). It is a three-bay, rectangular-plan Gothic church building constructed from squared and coursed granite rubble with a base course, string course, single light lancet windows, a grey slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods, saw-tooth skews to the gables and a small brick stack midway up the roof ridge to the north gable. The granite presbytery is two-storey and three-bay. The south entrance elevation of the church is a symmetrical gabled elevation with a central advanced bay and angled clasping buttresses. There is a central two-leaf timber entrance door with a central panel above containing a single window and date stone 'DEO 1839' above, rising over the roof apex to a gabled bellcote with a bell in situ. The flanking windows are now blind, and the outer buttresses rise to pinnacles. The west elevation is five-bay and divided by buttresses. The east elevation mirrors this, except for a small, low monopitch rendered addition to the north-west corner. The north elevation is symmetrical with three lancet windows and clasping buttresses rising to pinnacles. There is a later harled gabled addition to the west. Windows are all stained glass, predominantly depicting Scottish Saints: St Bride, St Machar, St Gregory, St Columba, St Ninian, and St Nathalan. There are also windows depicting Malcolm Canmore, David I, Kings of Scotland and Bishops Elphinstone and Chisholm of Aberdeen. The east window depicts St Andrew to the left, the Crucifixion in the centre and St Margaret to the right. The windows were gifted by one James Calder and made by Louis Grosse and Co of London and Bruges. The church interior is restrained but with decorative Catholic elements, with a mosaic floor depicting St Andrew in the entrance vestibule, a tiled central aisle, now partly covered, a timber dado with trefoil pattern, timber pews with fleur-de-lys ends, a plaster rib vaulted ceiling with gilded bosses echoing fan vaulting. An organ gallery to the south has an openwork timber screen below, forming separation from the main part of nave. The altar has timber panelled reredos with painted and gilded panels depicting saints, and there is a carved timber lectern and a timber font with gilding. The presbytery is attached to church by a low monopitched harled linking section at the principal three-bay south elevation. The west bay is canted to both storeys, and the east bay has a piended dormer breaking the eaves. The central entrance has a two-leaf gable head window above, breaking the eaves with a Latin cross at the apex. Large gable stacks to the west and east have thackstanes, and there are cast-iron rainwater goods. A low rubble wall encloses the boundary to the west, south and east. There are wrought-iron decorative gates with pedestrian openings, octagonal standards stamped 'Harper and Co. Founders' and a Lamp post with barley sugar standard.
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