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Stepped Perpendicular Gothic church built in 1842 to the designs of Archibald Simpson, and incorporating 1761 Huntly Vault and surrounded by associated graveyard. Coursed tooled granite with finely finished dressings. Angle buttresses breaking eaves with coped pyramidal finial, and eaves cornice. Predominantly small-pane timber traceried windows. Grey slate roof with lead ridge. Coped stone skews. Two coped stacks to lean-to vestry. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Single storey plain gothic church hall to west of church. Built in 1902. Tooled coursed pink granite with some ladder snecking, finely finished to margins. Chamfered pointed-arched openings and timber eaves course. Predominantly square-pane leaded windows. Purple grey slate roof with lead ridge and two cast-iron ventilators. Coped stone skews with decorative finials. Cast-iron rainwater goods. The hall was used to cater for any overflow of evacuees during WWII coming in from Glasgow that couldn't be fitted into the nearby school. Recently converted to a business centre. The grave yard surrounding church enclosed by rubble boundary wall with pointed coping. Gates to east and west with square grey granite gatepiers, coped with ogee caps and spherical finials, pedestrian gateway to east with geometric ironwork gates. Within the graveyard are the Commonwealth war graves of Sergeant John Laverton Silver (RAF Volunteer Reserve) and Private James Calder (Royal Army Medical Corps). Set against the outside south wall of the church is a memorial commemorating those killed in World War I (NO59NW0073).
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