Moray HER - NJ35NW0113 - ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, SOUTH STREET, FOCHABERS

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NameROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, SOUTH STREET, FOCHABERS
NRHE Card No.NJ35NW17
NRHE Numlink 16891
HES SM No. NULL
HES LB No. 1581
Site Form Standing Structure
Site Condition Complete 2
Details Church by J. Gillespie Graham, 1826-8, after a design by Bishop James Kyle, and presbytery was added in the mid-19th century. The church is a rectangular Gothic building orientated north - south with a gabled entrance front on the south side. Tooled ashlar frontage, mixed rubble flanks, with tooled and polished ashlar dressings. The main façade (south) has with a central bay marked by stepped buttresses rising to panelled, gabletted, pinnacles with stiff-leaf finials, linked at wallhead by a pierced balustrade and a gable apex finial. Canted chancel (added circa 1905) at the north gable with paired hoodmoulded windows with curvilinear tracery. The presbytery is a 2-storey and attic dwelling with long (rear) east elevation abutting the church wall and with a regular 3-bay entrance gable at the south. Mixed rubble construction with tooled ashlar dressings. Off-centre entrance with flanking windows and two first floor windows, all under relieving arches.
Last Update05/09/2022
Updated Bycpalmer
CompilerLBU
Date of Compilation27/09/2017

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