Parish Church, Seafield Terrace, Portsoy

The Parish Church on Seafield Terrace in Portsoy was built in 1844 and remodeled in 1870, designed by architect J Russell Mackenzie from Aberdeen. The church features coursed dark rubble with contrasting tooled sandstone ashlar dressings. It has a rectangular shape with a south-facing entrance gable that is buttressed and a spire located at the southwest angle. The main entrance includes a pointed arch doorway, which is divided by a slender pilastered trumeau, and has paired lights above the transom, along with a pair of chevron-planked doors. Above the entrance, there is a wheel window that fills the gable, with the central entrance flanked by small shoulder-arched lights, each having a dated lintel. The slightly advanced square tower, added in 1870, features stepped diagonal buttresses and rises to an octagonal facetted spire from the second stage. The base of the spire has pointed-arched, louvred openings on each face and alternating pinnacle-capped buttresses, with lucarnes in the upper stages of the facetted spire, which is topped with a cast-iron finial.

The east elevation of the church is lit by three square-headed three-light windows with lattice-pane glazing. There is a side entrance set back to the west that leads to a parish room, connecting the church with the adjacent manse. The roofs are covered with slate.

Inside, the church has an aisled and galleried layout with a timber braced roof. The aisle arcade is supported by tapering cast-iron cluster columns, and there is an organ located in the gallery. The pulpit is positioned against the north gable wall, with a stained glass wheel window above it. Additionally, there are two stained glass windows from around 1920 by Walter J Pearce of Manchester located to the west.

The church is enclosed by low coped rubble walls that separate the site from the road and continue with the manse wall. The entrance is flanked by bullfaced piers and is closed by a pair of cast-iron gates. There are also rubble walls on the east and north sides, which continue around the manse to the west.