Rutherford Church And Church Hall, Rosemount Place, Aberdeen

Circa 1870. T-plan church with rectangular-plan hall adjoining to W. Tooled coursed granite finely finished to margins. Base course; pointed-arched openings; chamfered reveals; rough-faced angle buttresses; eaves blocking course.

S (ROSEMOUNT PLACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3-bay; gabled central bay, deeply chamfered glazed former doorway, hoodmould with decorative drip stones, reached by stone steps; 3 windows above, centre window stepped up, triple hoodmould, carved Celtic cross finial to apex; single window to flanking bay to right, crenellated parapet, corbelled angle pinnacle to outer right breaking roofline; 3-stage, square-plan tower adjoining and advanced to outer left, window to 1st stage, glazed boarded timber door to W elevation, decoratively traceried louvred opening to S and W of 2nd stage, stone parapet on dentil mouldings with central clockface flanked by inset trefoils to 3rd stage, louvred gableted lucarnes to each elevation, granite broach spire; iron weathervane finial to apex. Former hall linked to church at outer right by single storey corridor with shouldered windows, 2-bay; tripartite window set in gable of bay to right, vesica in gablehead, flanked to left by pointed-arched doorway slightly advanced breaking eaves, 2-leaf gazed timber door with vertically paned fanlight.

E ELEVATION: pointed-arched windows, predominantly obscured by former hall: 5-bay; glazed timber door flanked to left by 2 shouldered bipartite windows in centre bays; gabled bay to outer right, with 2 windows to centre and arrowslit opening set in gablehead; gabled bay to outer left with tripartite window to centre.

N ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; gabled; opening off-centre to right of ground floor, rose window centred above.

W (LOANHEAD TERRACE) ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 5-bay; 3 flat-arched windows to ground floor of centre 3 bays, pointed-arched window above each; tower adjoining to outer right (see above); 2-bay gabled bay advanced to outer left; 2 flat-arched bipartite windows to ground floor with Y-traceried bipartites above; small quatrefoil rose window centred above, small tripartites set in gablehead, stone finial to apex.

Predominantly replacement plate-glass windows. Grey slate roof with tiled ridge and iron ventilators. Coped stone skews with predominantly simple skewputts, carved to hall. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen 1999.