St Kane's Hall, Main Street, New Deer, Turriff

St Kane's Hall is a former Free Church built between 1884 and 1885 in the Early Gothic style, now in use as a school hall and gymnasium. It was designed by the Aberdeenshire architects Ellis & Wilson and constructed of New Pitsligo granite, with the side and rear walls built of square hammered rubble, while the front elevation features close-jointed hammer-blocked ashlar. The building is prominently sited on Main Street in New Deer.

The rectangular-plan church opened in 1885 at a cost of £2,300, with seating for 500 people. The foundation stone was laid by Mrs Dingwall Fordyce of Brucklay Castle in June 1884, and the mason was William Davidson of New Pitsligo. According to the Peterhead Sentinel and General Advertiser for Buchan District on 1 July 1885, it was described as "one of the most handsomest buildings for Presbyterian worship to be found in any rural district in the north of Scotland", built in the modern open style with a platform pulpit. A spacious hall and session house (presbytery) were constructed behind the church.

The west (front) elevation is three bays wide, with a central recessed section featuring a buttressed gabled front and a large three-light stone mullioned perpendicular window, though many windows are now modern uPVC replacements. A rectangular-plan three-stage tower at the southwest corner has angled buttresses and is topped by an octagonal spire with a simple decorative metal finial. The third stage contains single cusped lancet openings on four sides, which are louvered. The advanced bay to the right is topped by a stone-columned belfry. Both flanking bays have pointed and arched lancet windows. The central entrance doorway has a two-leaf timber door. The building has cast iron rainwater goods throughout.

The south elevation features gable-fronted end bays that break through the eaves. The east (rear) elevation is plainer and largely symmetrical, with one large central pointed-arch blind window flanked by smaller pointed-arched windows and a chimney stack at the apex of the rear gable. The rear is abutted by a single-storey ancillary building with piended roofs, which served as the former hall and presbytery.

The roof is pitched and slated with ashlar stone skews with pedimented skew putts. Window openings are predominantly tall, narrow lancets with angled ashlar cills, continuous moulded cill courses, and simple hoodmouldings. Door openings are recessed pointed-arched openings with moulded surrounds, plain transoms, and timber-boarded doors with decorative hinges.

The interior has been converted to gymnasium use. The roof has exposed timber beams, and late 19th-century decorative painted paper survives on some walls.

Following the opening of the United Presbyterian Church in New Deer in November 1894, the two denominations merged by 1900. At that time, the East United Free Church (formerly the UP Church) and West United Free Church (the former Free Church, St Kane's Hall) remained separate. These congregations merged in 1908 as the United Free Church at St Kane's Hall. The East church was eventually demolished. The United Free Church and Church of Scotland reunited in 1929, with no further record of a United Free Church in New Deer after this date. The pulpit was removed in 1936, and the church was eventually sold to the local authority in 1971–72.