St Mary Of The Assumption, Fife Street, Dufftown

CHURCH: Rev Walter Lovi, 1825 enlarged 1925. Rectangular

church orientated N-S. Grey rubble granite, tooled sandstone

dressings. 3-bay S entrance gable (facing street) with bays

delineated by buttresses rising above crenellated wallhead

(pinnacles missing) as flanking archways each side of church.

3 pointed-headed windows with intersecting tracery and centre

gablet oculus; apex cross.

Plain 3-bay flanks with N end bay lit by oculi. Local slate

roof.

INTERIOR: simple groin vaulted interior with ribs rising

from carved corbel stones; extended 1925 chancel with

panelled dado and joisted timber ceiling. Green and white

marble altar with oak canopy (both by John Devlin).

Gallery across S end of church housing organ; bowed front

supported by 4 slender cast-iron columns; slender turned

balusters supporting moulded rail.

HALL: mid 19th century church hall flanks church at E. Harled

with ashlar dressings. S frontage with large centre transomed

and mullioned window flanked left by smaller window and right

by door, all hoodmoulded; multi-pane glazing. centre

keystoned niche in gablet; apex bellcote.

GATEPIERS: bull-faced granite gatepiers with simple caps;

decorative wrought- and cast-iron pedestrian gate under

decorative overthrow.

Flanking coped bullfaced retaining walls.