St Mary Of The Assumption, Fife Street, Dufftown

St Mary of the Assumption is a church located on Fife Street in Dufftown. Originally built in 1825 by Reverend Walter Lovi, it was enlarged in 1925. The church has a rectangular shape and is oriented north-south. It is constructed from grey rubble granite with tooled sandstone dressings. The south entrance gable, which faces the street, features three bays marked by buttresses that rise above a crenellated wallhead, although the pinnacles are missing. Each side of the church has flanking archways, and there are three pointed-headed windows with intersecting tracery and a central gablet oculus topped with a cross. The plain three-bay flanks have an oculus in the northern end bay, and the roof is covered with local slate.

Inside, the church has a simple groin vaulted interior with ribs that rise from carved corbel stones. The chancel, extended in 1925, features a panelled dado and a joisted timber ceiling. The altar, made of green and white marble with an oak canopy, was created by John Devlin. There is a gallery across the south end of the church that houses the organ, featuring a bowed front supported by four slender cast-iron columns and slender turned balusters that hold up a moulded rail.

Adjacent to the church is a mid-19th century church hall that flanks it on the east side. This hall is harled with ashlar dressings. The south frontage includes a large central transomed and mullioned window, flanked on the left by a smaller window and on the right by a door, all of which have hoodmoulds and multi-pane glazing. There is a keystoned niche in the gablet, topped with an apex bellcote.

The property is completed by bull-faced granite gatepiers with simple caps, and a decorative wrought- and cast-iron pedestrian gate under a decorative overthrow. Flanking the site are coped bull-faced retaining walls.