Gamrie Church is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church, burial ground.
Gamrie Church
- WRENN ID
- hollow-bonework-quill
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Church, burial ground
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
William Robertson, Elgin, 1829-30. Large rectangular church with 4-bay S elevation. Harled, ashlar margins and dressings.
4 substantial shallow Tudor arched windows light S elevation, with moulded wooden transom and mullion and pointed-headed detailing to upper lights; multi-pane glazing. 2 similar windows in centre of rear elevation, flanked by similar blocked window recesses (at left with small later vestry window in base). Small Tudor arched 2-light gallery window in each gable; multi-pane glazing.
Projecting gabled porch at E and W gables, each with window. Finialled bellcote with Gothic detailing at W gable apex; later 19th century cast-iron weathervane at E.
Small single storey wing projects at rear.
INTERIOR: well lit galleried interior; 5-sided gallery with panelled front supported by cluster columns; demi-octagonal pulpit without sounding board. Shaped fanlights with Gothic intersecting glazing above each main entrance door. Some later partitioning of interior below gallery to form vestry and meeting room.
BURIAL GROUND: large rubble walled burial ground. Main entrance flanked by plain square tooled ashlar gatepiers with shallow pyramidal caps. Low coped flanking quadrants with decorative cast-iron railings of circa 1900. Matching pair carriage gates.
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