Elim Pentecostal Church, 50 Marischal Street

1. 3-bay gabled Gothic church. Pointed-arched openings and distinctive crocketed and saw-toothed decoration to skews terminating in bellcote. Grey granite ashlar with recessed sandstone to clerestory windows.

E (entrance) ELEVATION: recessed 2-leaf timber doors to each ground floor bay with decorative cast-iron hinges and moulded surrounds; pointed-arched fanlights above. Central doorway slightly advanced with gabled doorpiece with cross at apex. Above, cinquefoil stained-glass windows with sandstone dressings flank tripartite lancet window with sandstone dressings and vesica to centre set within pointed-arched opening. Small, quatrefoil louvred opening above. 3 large pointed-arched windows with elaborate tracery at S elevation; segmental-arched pend runs underneath building at Theatre Lane. 2 further pointed-arched windows at W elevation.

Single sash and case window to N elevation over pend at Theatre Lane. Grey slate. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: Pointed-arch timber doors to vestibule and main hall. Vestibule wall with fixed-pane leaded glazing. Large hall with simple ribbed plasterwork coombed ceiling. Gallery to E with quartrefoil and dentil decoration; cast-iron supporting columns. Vaulted basement comprising 4 long and shallow brick chambers.