St Columba's Episcopal Church, Lonmay is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 May 2004. Church, lychgate. 2 related planning applications.

St Columba's Episcopal Church, Lonmay

WRENN ID
weathered-brick-foxglove
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 May 2004
Type
Church, lychgate
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Columba's Episcopal Church in Lonmay was built in 1797 and significantly extended and reconstructed in 1862. It was later renovated and converted into a dwelling in the late 20th century. The church is designed in the Early English style and features a T-plan layout with a four-bay nave and a gabled porch. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings, and the lancet windows have cusped heads, chamfered arrises, and raked cills.

On the north elevation, there is a gabled transept that projects to the left of center, featuring two small windows on the first stage and a single window in the gablehead, which is topped by a bellcote (though the bells are missing). To the right, there are two tall lancet windows, along with a lower set-back bay that includes two garage doors. To the left, a slightly lower bay has a small projecting porch with a single light and door on the further-gabled left return.

The east elevation has a broad gabled design with a large raised tripartite window at the center. The south elevation features a tall central bay with four tall lancets and two later pitch-roofed dormer windows. There is a low bay to the outer right with a single light and a narrow door, and a lower set-back bay to the outer left that includes an almost full-width conservatory and a stone-pedimented dormer window on the right.

The west elevation has a low projecting gable with a taller gable behind it, which contains a blocked circular window in the gablehead surmounted by a cast-iron cockerel weathervane finial. The glazing includes horizontal multi-pane patterns and diamond-pattern leaded glass in the porch, all of which are replacements. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, and the chimney stack is coped with harling, featuring an ashlar-coped skews with bracketed skewputts.

Inside, the church has been sympathetically converted, with some original details restored. This includes the former nave, which has stencilled decoration on the kingpost truss roof and walls. The former chancel features a hammerbeam roof, a chancel arch, and stencilling signed by 'W Wilson Painter 1870', along with an arcaded carved timber screen.

Additionally, there is a lychgate that is broad and deep with a gabled timber structure supported by four swept-braced posts and scissor-braced gableheads. The lychgate has plain bargeboards and overhanging eaves, topped with a slated roof.

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