Moray HER - NJ35NW0098 - PRINGLE CHURCH, HIGH STREET, FOCHABERS

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NamePRINGLE CHURCH, HIGH STREET, FOCHABERS
NRHE Card No.NJ35NW46
NRHE Numlink 115285
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 1601
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Former church, now in use as a museum, attributed to D. and R. MacMillan, Aberdeen, and built in 1900. The gothic style building was built of bull-faced rubble, with tooled ashlar dressings. The roof is clad in slates with red tile ridge and apex finials. Principal south facing gabled frontage with square tower and spire at southeast angle. Off-centre pointed-headed recessed entrance in base of tower with shallow gabled detailing to doorpiece. Tall unstaged tower with clasping buttresses, paired louvred lancets and clock faces at upper level, corbelled wallhead with crenellated parapet and angle pinnacles, octagonal facetted spire with cast-iron weathervane. Large geometric tracery window in centre in base of southwest gallery stair projection. Five-bay buttressed flanks lit by paired hoodmoulded lancets with lattice-pane glazing.
Last Update17/09/2024
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerLBU
Date of Compilation27/09/2017
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