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Church, still in ecclesiastical use, built by J Russell Mackenzie in circa 1875-77. The funds for the church and the nearby Rickarton Cottages (NO88NE0275), which were formerly owned by the church, were provided by Mrs Hepburn of Rickarton as a memorial to her daughter. It is a small, elaborately-detailed gothic church building, constructed from coursed, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings, deep base and eaves courses, traceried circular openings, cusped lancets, two-stage sawtooth-coped and pinnacled buttresses, voussoirs, chamfered reveals, raked cills, timber doors with decorative ironwork, shallow gabled transepts, a semicircular apse, polygonal baptistry and a four-stage buttressed tower. Leaded diamond-pattern glazing is used at the apse and baptistery, with some openings reglazed. The grey slate roof has ashlar-coped skews and cast-iron downpipes with polygonal rainwater hoppers. The principal north-east elevation is coursed and symmetrical, with a central deeply moulded and gabled doorway with engaged colonnettes and flanking bays each with a triple lancet behind a colonnade giving way to a blind trefoil opening and pinnacled angle buttresses. The cross-finialled gablehead incorporates a traceried wheel window with coloured glazing within an arched opening of deep bisected reveal. The four-stage tower to the south-east side has a lancet to the south-east at the first stage, a reduced blank second stage and a circular window to the south-east of the further reduced third, stage giving way to a pinnacled and arcaded belfry and a polygonal spire with a decorative cast-iron weathervane. The south-west elevation has paired cusped lancets to either side of an almost full-height apsidal bay at the centre, with a blank baptistery to the north-west and the tower set-back in the angle at the south-east. The north-west elevation has a three-bay aisle-less nave with a dividing buttresses to the north-east, a transept to the south-west with two cusped lancets incorporated into the base of a wheel window at the centre above, and a lower baptistery projecting at the outer south-west with three windows and a door to the return. The south-east elevation mirrors the north-west. The church has a fine plain interior with a moulded cornice, hammerbeam roof and decorative timber braces, timber pews and boarded dadoes. The transept has a double arch springing from a low column with a moulded capital. The apsidal chancel has an elegant braced timber roof on stone corbels. The coloured glass to the north-east traceried window depicts St Margarita, and the lancet to the south-east transept has 'Come Holy Spirit' glazing by the Edinburgh Stained Glass House, 2003. Low, coped boundary walls have decorative ironwork with inset railings and gates to the north-east with high rubble boundaries elsewhere. A nearby single-storey, slated, rubble cottage known as 'soup kitchen' was presented to the church by George Blackie in 1905.
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