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Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Glenmuick Parish Church is a striking landmark in the central square in Ballater and is an important part of the streetscape. It was also the place around which the town developed and is a crucial element in Ballater's history. Designed by J Russell Mackenzie 1873-4, it is rectangular in plan, in the Victorian Gothic style, with church hall at the west. It has a distinctive canted entrance porch, 4-bay aisles to north and south and a simple, largely unaltered interior. Constructed of squared, coursed pink and grey granite. The present church replaced an earlier simple building with a wooden steeple, built to accommodate the population of Glengairn, Tullich and Glenmuick parishes and consecrated in 1800. As Ballater grew, the older church was deemed not to be sufficiently in keeping with the more prosperous town and the present church was built.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)