New Byth Church, Bridge Street, New Byth is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 February 1982. Church.
New Byth Church, Bridge Street, New Byth
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rood-dawn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 February 1982
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
A & W Reid, architects, Elgin. Dated 1851. Simple rectangular church. Red rubble with tooled red sandstone ashlar dressings, chamfered margins. E facing entrance gable with centre pointed-headed entrance flanked by hoodmoulded lancet windows; apex bellcote with datestone at base; angle buttresses. 4-bay long N and S elevations lit by narrow pointed-headed windows with leaded lattice-pane glazing. Later vestry in rear.
Slate roof.
INTERIOR: simple galleried interior; gallery masked by later inserted ceiling; seats re-used elsewhere. Painted panelled gallery front. Simple panelled pulpit and pews. Ornate inlaid marble mural memorial in W wall to Col Beauchamp Colclough Urquhart of Meldrum and Bythe. In
entrance lobby mural memorial to Rev John Falconer, died 1895.
FORECOURT: pyramidally capped sandstone ashlar piers with linking iron railings enclosing area by E entrance.
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