St Mary's Church, High Street, Banff

Andrew Wilson, Banff, architect and builder, 1790; tower and spire, William Robertson, Elgin, 1828-9, completed Thomas Mackenzie, Elgin, 1849; apse and re-casting of interior, Jeffrey Waddell and Young, Glasgow, l927.

CHURCH: rectangular, harled with ashlar margins and dressings. 5-bay long south elevation with regular fenestration (largely re-modelled in 1927).Windows are round-arched, key-stoned and with blocked imposts. Paired small lights at ground floor and 3 large similarly shaped mullioned and transomed windows in centre of lst floor. Bowed ashlar apse at east gable, fronted in southeast re-entrant angle by single pitch entrance porch. Deep moulded wallhead cornice. Slate roofs.

SPIRE: tooled and polished ashlar. Tall Gibbsian spire rising above 2-stage Roman Doric pilastered tower with base as porch served by round-arched north and south entrances. Clock faces in each face below 3-stage octagonal spire with louvred oval openings terminating as tapering, facetted steeple with blind oculi lucarnes.

INTERIOR: re-cast to east and re-furbished, 1927. Gallery at west; chancel and semi-circular apse; communion table, pulpit and font also l927. Marble paving to chancel and apse, lit by 3 stained glass windows (circa l927 by Stephen Adam Studios). Coombed ceiling, segmental barrel-vault over chancel. Various 19th and earlier 20th century mural memorial plaques.