St Marnan's Episcopal Church, Aberchirder is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Chapel and school.
St Marnan's Episcopal Church, Aberchirder
- WRENN ID
- wild-quoin-gilt
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Chapel and school
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Marnan's Episcopal Church in Aberchirder was built between 1824 and 1826, with the interior remodeled in 1876 by Alexander Ross from Inverness. This single-storey chapel has a rectangular plan and is situated on rising ground, accompanied by a former school to the northeast.
The chapel features squared and coursed stugged granite with ashlar dressings and plate tracery. On the northeast elevation, there is a later gabled porch, likely added in 1876, which includes a trefoil-headed bipartite window to the north and a round-arched doorway at the west re-entrant angle. This doorway has chamfered reveals and a two-leaf boarded door with decorative iron-work hinges. Above the porch, a rose window with wheel tracery is set into the gable, topped by an ashlar birdcage bellcote with an ogee stone roof, a two-bulb stone finial, and a possibly re-used bell.
The east and west elevations each have tall round-headed windows with plate tracery, with three on the east side and two on the west side, where the center window is blocked and a lean-to vestry is located to the right. The south elevation features a large round-headed, three-light window from around 1895, with a door to the vestry on the left. The windows have diamond lead-pane glazing.
The roof is covered with grey slates, and the building has ashlar coped skews with a cross-finial on the south gable and a coped stack on the vestry.
Inside, the chapel's walls are whitewashed, and it has a coffered wooden pitched roof. The south window contains stained glass from the Pre-Raphaelite School, signed by Jones and Willis from 1895/6, depicting the Crucifixion and Resurrection as a memorial to Rev G Boyes.
The former school, built in 1877 to the northeast and integrated into the churchyard walls, is a single-storey, three-bay structure with a later, slightly lower single-bay addition to the south. It is constructed of random rubble with enlarged windows and has a rendered porch projecting to the west. The school has two windows on the east and one on the north gable, featuring later multi-pane casement and pivot windows. The roof is also covered with grey slates, and it has coped skews with small finials and beak skewputts.
Additionally, there is a retaining wall made of random rubble, which is rubble-coped with ashlar, and it features dome-capped gatepiers to the north with simple wrought-iron gates.
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