Bellie Parish Church, The Square, Fochabers

Bellie Parish Church, located in The Square, Fochabers, was designed by John Baxter and built between 1795 and 1798. This north-facing, rectangular, five-bay church features a classical design with a pedimented giant Roman Doric tetrastyle portico and a steeple. The building is constructed from polished and tooled ashlar sandstone.

Behind the portico, there is a square clock stage that includes a north-facing clock face dated 1798, along with oculi on the remaining faces and urns at the corners. The octagonal belfry has louvred or blind segmental-headed openings on each side and a facetted spire adorned with three diminishing sets of oval lucarnes on alternate facets, topped with a copper weathervane, although the pointers are missing.

The portico contains three doors with radial fanlights, and the church has regular fenestration, with the gallery windows being shorter than those on the ground floor, some of which are blind in the east and west return gables. The windows feature multi-pane glazing.

The front of the church has a pronounced projecting three-window bowed center bay, with long windows above short blind panels on the ground floor. The roof is a piended platform covered in slate.

Inside, there is an entrance lobby with mirrored gallery stairs leading to doorways on either side that open into the church. The interior features galleries at the east and west, supported by Greek Doric columns, and may have been re-furnished by architect Archibald Simpson around 1830, with keystoned detailing on the panelled fronts.

The octagonal panelled pulpit sits on a square base supported by stumpy fluted columns and is accessed by a short flight of wooden stairs with a simple balustrade. The pulpit lacks a back-board and sounding-board. The seating layout has undergone minor alterations and is missing communion tables, with coffered detailing on the pew ends. A later organ is located in the south bowed bay.