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Church, still in ecclesiastical use, built by James Souttar in 1868-69, with the foundation stone laid by Lord Kintore on July 7th, 1868, and the church was opening in 1869. Later alterations were carried out, including the addition of a new gallery and seating in 1896 and a church hall was added in 1897. It is a tall single-stage, single-bay, Greek cross-plan, Gothic church with a two-stage stair tower. The church is constructed from small blocks of roughly squared and snecked coursed rubble with ashlar margins, some stugged, base and band courses, single-stage, broad, clasping buttresses of shallow projection, voussoirs, stop-chamfered reveals, raked cills and vertically-boarded two-leaf timber doors. The tower is constructed from larger blocks of snecked squared rubble with ashlar dressings. There is diamond-pattern leaded glazing with painted margins and a stained-glass memorial window to the south. The grey slate roof has stepped ashlar skews with mitre skewputts and diminutive triangular louvered roof ventilators and base of the polygonal spire. The principal north cross-finialled gable elevation has a large four-light traceried window, flanked by blocked tiny rectangular openings at the springing point of an arch. Steps lead up to a deep-set door in a small gabled projecting porch at the east, with the tower to the east with a door, flanking buttresses and a two-light traceried window at the first stage giving way to a modillioned cornice and pyramid roof. The west elevation has an advanced gable with a two-light traceried window behind external secondary glazing, and the tower in the re-entrant angle to the north comprising a small window at the first stage and a two-light traceried window above. A door in the low link section projects at the outer south. The single-storey, three-bay, rectangular, plan later hall is linked to the church at the south-west corner, and has a traceried circular window to the west and later windows elsewhere. Interior features include fixed timber pews, vertically-boarded timber dadoes, a north gallery on four iron columns with an arcaded front, a centre clock, raked seats, a compartmented and stencilled boarded timber ceiling and a Narthex screen of panelled timber and multi-pane leaded top lights. A winding stair has barley-twist balusters and square-section finialled newel posts with a small blocked pointed-arch opening. A chancel arch to the south has pipe organ housing and an 1896 stained glass window gifted by William Mowat. The circular, arcaded timber pulpit from is from an earlier 1843 church. Mural monuments include a 1914-19 granite war memorial to 'Those of the North U F Church who fell in the Great War' a 1914-19 timber war memorial 'In Loving Memory of those connected with this Congregation who gave their lives in the Great War', and a timber memorial to 'Those connected with this congregation who gave their lives in the Second World War 1939-1945'. The vestry has a boarded dado and ceiling and a gas lamp.
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