St Moluag's Church, Cromar Drive, Tarland

St Moluag's Church, located on Cromar Drive in Tarland, was designed by William Smith and completed in 1869, with the spire added in 1889. This Gothic church has a rectangular plan and features a three-bay layout. It includes a broached spire belltower at the southeast corner and a bellcote at the southwest corner. The exterior is constructed from stugged granite courses, which have polished margins around the openings and detailing, and it is adorned with tall, pointed-arch windows.

The south elevation, which is the principal facade, displays three bays with saw-toothed clasped buttresses. It has a base course and a saw-toothed triple dividing band running along the nave, as well as an eaves course. The openings feature polychrome voussoirs and chamfered margins. In the center, there is a three-bay arcade with a small window in the central bay, flanked by timber panelled entrance doors. Above, a large plate tracery rose window is set into the gablehead, which terminates in a cast-iron cross finial, with a spur finial on the right shoulder. The square-plan, three-stage belltower, which has a broached spire, is located in the right bay. It features a bipartite window at the ground level, a blind oculus on the second stage, and battered walls on the third stage with cusped bipartite louvred openings. Clasped buttresses frame the narrow bay to the left, rising to support a gableted bellcote on a corbelled cornice.

The north elevation has a stepped tripartite window at the gable end and includes a single-storey gabled boilerhouse at the ground level, which has a battered gable stack. The east side elevation consists of six bays with regular fenestration, and the belltower abuts the outer left bay. The west side elevation also features six bays with regular fenestration, including a blind window in the outer right bay.

The church is fitted with leaded windows and has a roof covered in grey slates with lead flashing and triangular roof vents. The gable ends have shouldered skews. The interior was not seen during the inspection in 2002.