St Peter and St Boniface RC Church (formerly the Drill Hall and later the Mackerchar Hall), Cathedral Square, Fortrose

Designed by John Robertson in 1881 this building comprises a 2-storey, 3-bay entrance block with a single storey 4-bay wing accommodating the hall, in a Romanesque style and approximately rectangular in plan. It was originally built as a drill hall, becoming the Mackerchar Hall in 1945 and it is now a church (2015). It is built of pink stugged sandstone with polished ashlar dressings with gables of squared rubble.

The pedimented entrance block has giant pilasters with a stack at the apex. There is a central door and flanking windows all within a triple arched arcade and there is a Venetian window above. The hall has a corbelled eaves course and tripartite round-headed stilted arched windows. The windows are mainly 2-pane glazing in timber sash and case frames (some have early 21st century stained glass).The roof is grey slates and there is a corniced chimney stack with unusual square yellow clay cans.

The interior, which was seen in 2015, has a good late 19th century scheme with timber panelled doors with timber moulded architraves and some timber dado rails. In a first floor room there is a timber chimneypiece with a cast iron inset. The narrow staircase to the upper floor has decorative iron balusters and timber rail. The hammerbeam roof of the hall is lined with timber boarding on the ceiling.