Church, The Square, Tarland is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 April 1971. Church.

Church, The Square, Tarland

WRENN ID
nether-bronze-fen
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
16 April 1971
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The building is a church located in The Square, Tarland, dated 1762. It is a roofless, rectangular-plan structure with six bays and features a birdcage belfry on the west gable. The church is designed in a plain Neo-Classical style, constructed from random rubble granite with squared courses around the openings, lintels, rybats, and quoins. The windows are semicircular-arched, and only the west gable remains intact above the eaves height.

On the west elevation, there is a tall window at the center with the birdcage belfry above it. Four square corner columns support an entablature that rises to a cornice and an ogee cap, which terminates in a ball finial. A blocked entrance bears the inscription 'MR TM 1762' on its lintel. The east elevation features a gable end with a window at the center, while the north elevation is a blank wall. The south elevation has a regular six-bay fenestration with an entrance in the center left bay. The coped skews terminate in small skew putts.

Inside, the church has an open turfed ground with a tapered column monument ending in an urn located to the center right.

The churchyard is a large rectangular area situated on terraced, raised ground above the village's main square. It contains predominantly 19th-century gravestones, with some dating back to the 18th century. Several stones against the south wall are carved with death motifs, resembling examples found in Lumphanan and Coull churchyards, indicating the work of the same mason. A large Victorian screen monument is present on the west wall, featuring a three-bay blind gothic arcade.

The boundary wall and gatepiers consist of a coped, squared rubble wall with square piers capped with pyramids. There is a retaining wall facing the street that supports the lower terrace.

Additionally, there is a drinking fountain dated 1913, which features a semicircular-arched, tripartite slab stone on a plinth carved with Celtic knot work affixed to the lower terrace wall. The fountain is made of pink granite and includes a bronze, canted water trough at the base, also dated 1913.

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