Trinity And Alvah Church, Castle Street, Banff

Trinity and Alvah Church, located on Castle Street in Banff, was designed by James Raeburn in 1844, with alterations and additions made by A & W Reid in 1876-1877 and 1936. The church has a shallow cruciform shape, featuring an east entrance front with a Greek Ionic portico that has a distyle in antis and is topped by an octagonal domed drum louvred belfry, which rises from a stepped plinth. The exterior is harled with a generous use of polished ashlar dressings and margins.

The church has a two-storey, five-bay frontage, with upper windows that light the gallery. There are three tall round-headed doorways with double-leaf doors, situated below round-headed lights in the set-back central bays. A blind clock aperture is located in the center of the pediment tympanum. The building features a deep ashlar wallhead bandcourse and cornice, with shallow advanced wings to the north and south added in 1876, each containing three segmental-headed windows on the ground and gallery floors. The windows are fitted with plate glass and 4-pane glazing, featuring long center transoms mostly filled with simple coloured geometric glazing from 1876.

There are single wooden pedimented dormers on the north and south sides, dating from 1876 or later, and the church has slate roofs, with a facetted leaded roof on the belfry. At the rear, there are single-storey vestry additions.

Inside, the church has a galleried interior with a complex timber roof structure that was refurbished in 1876. The gallery is five-sided with a panelled front, supported by slender painted cast-iron columns. An organ occupies the shallow west transept, which is fronted by a pulpit. There are doorways flanking the pulpit on each side leading to the vestry, featuring moulded door jambs and a simple corniced overdoor from 1844. The interior also includes a ribbed pine dado and plain pine pews, with the seats and backs made mostly from single lengths of timber.