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
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Dated 1844, remodelled probably 1903 by Duncan MacMillan. Rectangular plan church, orientated N-S, with 2-stage tower adjoining to SE, vestry to NW. Harled with ashlar dressings; buttresses, hoodmoulds, eaves course, parapet.

ENTRANCE TOWER

S ELEVATION: adjoined to SE corner; pointed-arch doorway to S with 2-leaf boarded door, hoodmould extending as string and cill course around tower. 3-light pointed-arch window above, date plaque reading "United Free Church, 1844, 1903", and tall louvred pointed-arch windows to belfry.

E ELEVATION: 2-light window at ground, (louvred window to belfry).

Cornice with water spouts, coped battlemented parapet around pyramidal slated roof with weathervane.

NAVE:

S ELEVATION: 3-light, stepped window with hoodmould, round panel with quatrefoil relief to gablehead, apex finial. Tower balanced at SW corner by large angle buttress with string courses and gablet cap.

W ELEVATION: 3-bays, divided by ashlar set-off buttresses; 3-light, cusped pointed-arch window to each bay. Lower, single storey vestry adjoining to N with round-arched doorway and window, finial to gable.

E ELEVATION: tower to S, 2 bays to N as above.

N ELEVATION: 2 tall, round-arched windows.

Small-pane, leaded stained glass to windows. Grey slates, ashlar coped skews, stack to vestry.

RETAINING WALL AND GATEPIERS: rubble coped wall, panelled ashlar gatepiers to S with pyramidal caps.

INTERIOR: remodelled by D MacMillan, circa 1890. Raked S-N, matchboarded to dado, stencilling above and around windows. Ribbed ceiling with stencilling. Stained glass to S presented by Rev G Macdonald and Family.

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