Ordiquhill And Cornhill Parish Church, Mid Street, Cornhill is a Grade C listed building in the Aberdeenshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 March 1994. Church.
Ordiquhill And Cornhill Parish Church, Mid Street, Cornhill
- WRENN ID
- fallen-bracket-hawthorn
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Aberdeenshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 4 March 1994
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NJ 586 583
- Coordinates
- 57.61279, -2.69323
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ordiquhill and Cornhill Parish Church, dated 1844 and likely remodeled around 1903 by Duncan MacMillan, features a rectangular plan oriented north-south. It has a two-stage tower on the southeast side and a vestry on the northwest. The exterior is harled with ashlar dressings, including buttresses, hoodmoulds, an eaves course, and a parapet.
The entrance tower on the southeast elevation has a pointed-arch doorway with a two-leaf boarded door. A hoodmould extends around the tower as a string and cill course. Above the doorway is a three-light pointed-arch window, along with a date plaque that reads "United Free Church, 1844, 1903," and tall louvred pointed-arch windows in the belfry. The east elevation features a two-light window at ground level and another louvred window in the belfry. The tower has a cornice with water spouts and a coped battlemented parapet surrounding a pyramidal slated roof topped with a weathervane.
On the nave's south elevation, there is a three-light stepped window with a hoodmould, a round panel with a quatrefoil relief at the gablehead, and an apex finial. The tower is balanced by a large angle buttress with string courses and a gablet cap at the southwest corner. The west elevation has three bays divided by ashlar set-off buttresses, with a three-light cusped pointed-arch window in each bay. A lower single-storey vestry adjoins to the north, featuring a round-arched doorway and window, along with a finial at the gable. The east elevation mirrors the tower to the south and has two bays to the north. The north elevation includes two tall round-arched windows. The windows have small-pane leaded stained glass, and the roof is covered with grey slates, featuring ashlar coped skews and a stack on the vestry.
The retaining wall has a rubble coped design, with panelled ashlar gatepiers to the south topped with pyramidal caps. The interior was remodeled by Duncan MacMillan around 1890, featuring a raked south-north layout, matchboarded dado, and stencilling above and around the windows. The ribbed ceiling also has stencilling, and stained glass in the south was presented by Rev G Macdonald and Family.
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