St Mary's Church, South Road, Ellon

St Mary's Church, located on South Road in Ellon, was designed by G.E. Street and constructed between 1870 and 1871. This early middle pointed church is 106 feet long and built from dark granite with lighter dressings, featuring freestone windows and string courses. The church has an aisleless nave that tapers to a narrower chancel. At the west end, there is a piended lean-to narthex with a depressed arch that encloses five lancet windows above. The north wall has four two-light windows, while the south wall has one four-light window and two two-light windows. An organ chamber is located on the south side, and a vestry is on the north side. The chancel is apsidal, and there is a north spirelet at the junction of the nave and chancel, which transitions cleverly from a square base to a semi-octagonal shape and then to a circular form.

Inside, the narthex opens into the church through three pointed arches. The interior features a pointed waggon roof supported by tie rods, a good original stone pulpit, a coloured marble reredos, and a two-seat sedilia with a piscina. There is also a sacrarium with a brass door made by Hardman & Co. The stained glass on the north side of the nave and chancel is by Clayton and Bell, while the south side of the nave features inferior glass by Lavers and Barreau.