Rutherford Church And Church Hall, Rosemount Place, Aberdeen

The Rutherford Church and Church Hall, located on Rosemount Place in Aberdeen, were constructed around 1870. The church is a T-plan building, with a rectangular-plan hall attached to the west. The exterior is built of finely finished, tooled coursed granite, with a base course, pointed-arched openings, chamfered reveals, rough-faced angle buttresses, and an eaves blocking course.

The south elevation, facing Rosemount Place, is asymmetrical and three bays wide. The central bay features a gabled section with a deeply chamfered former doorway, accessed by stone steps, and three windows above. The central window is stepped up and has a triple hoodmould, topped with a carved Celtic cross finial. To the right, a single window is flanked by a crenellated parapet and a corbelled angle pinnacle that breaks the roofline. A three-stage, square-plan tower projects to the outer left, incorporating a window on the first stage, a glazed boarded timber door on the west elevation, a decoratively traceried louvred opening on the second stage, and a stone parapet with a central clockface flanked by inset trefoils on the third stage. Three louvred gableted lucarnes are present on each elevation of the tower, culminating in an iron weathervane finial. A single-story corridor links the church to the hall on the right, featuring shouldered windows. The hall’s gable has a tripartite window, a vesica in the gablehead, and a pointed-arched doorway with a two-leaf glazed timber door and vertically paned fanlight.

The east elevation, primarily obscured by the hall, has pointed-arched windows and five bays. A glazed timber door, flanked to the left by two shouldered, bipartite windows, is centrally placed, and a gabled bay to the right features two windows and an arrowslit in the gablehead. Another gabled bay to the left has a tripartite window.

The north elevation is near-symmetrical with a gabled form and an opening off-centre to the right of the ground floor, above which is a rose window.

The west (Loanhead Terrace) elevation is asymmetrical, featuring three flat-arched windows on the ground floor of the central three bays, with pointed-arched windows above. The tower is attached to the outer right. Advanced to the outer left is a two-bay gabled section, with flat-arched, bipartite windows on the ground floor paired with Y-traceried bipartites above. A small quatrefoil rose window is centred above, and a small tripartite window is set in the gablehead. A stone finial tops the apex.

Most windows are now replacement plate glass. The roof is covered in grey slate with a tiled ridge and iron ventilators. Coped stone skews are present, with predominantly simple skewputts, carved to the hall. Cast-iron rainwater goods are used. The interior of the church was not inspected in 1999.