Ordiquhill Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 February 1972. Church.
Ordiquhill Parish Church
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1972
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ordiquhill Parish Church was built in 1805, with later additions and interior remodelling. It features a rectangular plan, is two stories high, and has a piend roof with a gable facing south. To the north, there is a single-storey gabled vestry addition. The exterior is harled with ashlar margins.
The east and west elevations each have round-arched doorways with panelled doors and radial fanlights, while the first floor features bipartite windows. The south elevation includes a slightly advanced gabled bay at the centre, which has two tall, widely spaced round-arched windows with timber Y-tracery and shutter hinges. There is a re-used ashlar birdcage bellcote on the gable, which has a fallen ball finial and houses a bell made by John Mowat of Aberdeen, dated 1754, complete with an inscription and ornament. The north elevation features a projecting gabled vestry with a forestair leading to a door in the west re-entrant angle, flanked by windows at both the ground and first floor. The windows include sash and case types as well as some casements with an 8-pane glazing pattern, and the south windows have square leaded panes. The piended roof is covered with grey slates, and the gable has ashlar skews with a stack on the vestry.
Inside, the church is galleried and was likely remodelled around 1862. It features grained woodwork, except for a classically detailed panelled pulpit on the south wall, which is probably original. The pulpit is backed by a pedimented and corniced structure with fluted pilasters and a round-arched panelled inset, supported on a panelled pedestal with acanthus scrolled brackets. There is a curved stair with a balustrade leading to the pulpit. The gallery surrounds three sides of the interior, supported by slender timber-clad pillars that are panelled with a dentilled cornice. A round-arched panel on the north side has a recessed panelled door.
The graveyard is enclosed by a rounded rubble-coped wall and gatepiers, designed by architects Davidson and Tawse from Lincoln's Inn, London, in 1923. There is a burial enclosure for the Gordon Duffs of Park, dating from 1665 to 1923, which is surrounded by a rubble wall with heavy roll-moulded ashlar coping and features an armorial and memorial panel.
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