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Former church, no longer in ecclesiastical use, built in 1891 to the designs of Sir George Washington Browne (Edinburgh). This is a late classical-neo Georgian revival building, with Greek detail at frontispiece on an elevated site. It is a rectangular 6-bay plan, having a 2-storeyed treatment and pedimented frontispiece at the centre of the west gable, a 3-bay pilastrade of doors bearing distyle in coupled antis portico of fluted Ionic columns, the main entablature of flanks threaded through as lintels of main windows, with small square windows above. The flanks are of plain coursed rubble, with small lower windows and large upper windows lintelled by the main entablature. A severe treatment, except at westmost bays which have lower bipartites with their own entablature. The tall tower is on the eastmost bay of the south flank, it is square with a domed octagonal belfry stage, louvred round-arched openings in Doric pilasters and has splayed sides blind with urns at angles. The hall is at right angles to the rear projecting south, and has tripartites in gables. The setting is within a large churchyard with a dwarf boundary retaining wall. There are good main gatepiers, fluted on inner face, panel-pilastered on outer face, with panelled banded rustication. Short, plain banded, curved flank walls link the outer piers. These have ball finials. The footgate lower down has banded piers with ball finials. A standing building survey was carried out in 2019 ahead of proposed alterations.
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NO65NW0087 - MAISON DIEU CHURCH, BRECHIN