| Details |
Former Banchory-Devenick Parish church (also known as St. Devenick's Church), built on the site of earlier churches. A post-reformation church is recorded as having been built on this site in 1642, but is said to have been built on an even earlier church site. St Devenick, an early Christian missionary is thought to have been buried on, or near, this site on 13 November 887 AD. The present church was built in 1822, and is oblong in plan, constructed of harled rubble with granite detailing stones including a base course, quoin strips and window and door surrounds. The double pitch roof is slated. The west gable has a small gabled porch with a rectangular door in the north and south faces and a narrow lancet window in the West face. Above the porch is a wide lancet window with simple tracery and clear glass. On the apex of the gable is a rectangular bellcote with a ball finial and tall metal weather vane. The south elevation has four lancet windows with Y-tracery. The east gable has a single large lancet window with intersecting tracery. The north elevation has a small hipped-roof extension used as a store. There are also small lancet windows at the West and east ends of the north elevation. Alterations were carried out in 1865 and 1925. Behind the church is a small watch house (NJ90SW0018). Within the churchyard is the Commonwealth war grave of Lance Corporal J Lawrie, Highland Light Infantry.
|
