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Former church, now converted for residential use. It is located at the southern edge of Kinneff, a small village close to Inverbervie, and was built as a Free Church in 1843 later changing to Church of Scotland, serving Kinneff and Catterline, a small village to the north. A Standing Building Survey was carried out May 2012 prior to the churches conversion into a dwellinghouse. The church stands in small grounds, mostly grass and a gravelled area for parking. The church was built with different sized sandstone blocks, with ashlar sandstone used for surrounds, mouldings and the bellcote. It is a rectangular building with a projecting porch to the east and an attached hall to the north. The east gable is the principle elevation, and shows Norman influences. The central porch features a round-arched doorway with attached columns and a simple hoodmould above the arch. There is a small stringcourse, which runs around the porch. The side faces of the porch have small round-arched windows and there is a Celtic cross finial on the apex of the gable. The east gable of the church has a round-arched window on either side of the porch, again with hoodmoulds. Above, near the gablehead, is a small louvred opening or vent. A small bellcote with a round-arch opening is mounted on the apex and the bell is hung from a wooden support. The rest of the elevations are harled, with sandstone corner stones (quoins). The south elevation has three round-arched windows with simple tracery and sandstone surrounds. Two similar windows are found in the west (rear) gable, along with a vent in the gablehead. The north elevation retains two of its round-arched windows, with the hall extension built outwards from the middle of the elevation. The hall is single storey and harled, with hipped, slated roofs. It has simple rectangular windows and a door with disabled access. There are two sections to the Church internally, the Main Church Hall located in the main building and the extension area which accommodates a WC, Kitchen and two rooms. The main Church hall is a large space featuring a section of raised floor with a pulpit, lath and plaster clad walls with sections of vertical timber linings over the stone, a high combined ceiling with decorative loft ventilation and plaster cornicing and 8 stained glass windows.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)