St Michael's, Northfield Terrace, Elgin

Late 19th century. Substantial 2-storey and attic, L-plan

gabled rectory with Elizabethan details. Squared and

snecked bull-faced sandstone rubble with ashlar

dressings; base course, relieving arches, stone mullions

and transoms, and hoodmoulds to attic windows. Moulded

architraves.

3-bay entrance elevation with broad gable over bays to

centre and right, narrower gable to left; door at centre

with 2-leaf doors and fanlight, ogee-carved lintel and

severe hoodmould, block keystone and label stops; single

window at 1st floor above; paired bipartites flanking to

left of centre at ground with 1st floor bipartite; canted

window to right of centre with ashlar half-piend roof at

ground, bipartite at 1st floor; 4-light attic window

spanning centre and outer right bays. Blank panel in

gablehead to outer left.

Side elevation: 2 2-storey and attic bays under broad

gable to left, comprised of 6-light window to right in

rectangular projection with buttressed angles and ashlar

balcony- parapet above, 2 widely spaced windows to left:

1 bipartite 1st floor window to left, French door and

window onto balcony to right; 4-light attic window at

centre. 2 2-storey bays to rear wing extending to right,

with bipartite windows at ground to left and each bay at

1st floor, 2 single windows at ground to outer right.

Sash and case windows with plate glass glazing to lower

sashes and multi-pane to upper; multi-pane casement

windows to attic. Grey slates; overhanding eaves with

plain timber barge boards. Moulded coping to end and

ridge stacks.

RETAINING WALLS: ashlar coped, sandstone rubble retaining

walls.