Community Centre, All Saints Episcopal Church, West Church Street, Buckie

CHURCH: Alexander Ross, 1876. Gothic. 4-bay rectangular

church with projecting 3-stage tower with entrance at SW

and apsidal chancel at E. Rubble, tooled and polished ashlar

dressings.

Entrance in base of tower flanked by small nook shafts

and with moulded pointed-headed tympanum. Paired lancets in

middle stage, moulded pointed-headed plate traceried windows

in upper stage, from which rises broached spire with

diminutive lucarnes and apex cast-iron weathervane.

Buttressed 3-bay S elevation with gabled plate traceried

windows breaking wallhead. Apsidal chancel lit by continuous

row of small cusped lights linked by pulvinated string

course at lintel height. Gable cross apices; slate roof,

bowed and piended at E.

INTERIOR: simple interior. Altar supported by paired

polished red granite shafts; some coloured glass but mainly

lattice-pane glazing; pine pulpit and pews; braced rafter

roof supported by moulded corbel heads.

CHURCH HALL: later 19th century rectangular gabled church

hall abuts W gable of church. Rubble tooled ashlar dressings.

3-bay entrance front to West Church Street with pointed-headed

centre door and flanking windows; oculus in set back gable;

multi-pane glazing; slate roof.

PARSONAGE: later 19th century 2-storey house linked to

church by simple narrow 3-bay wing. Rubble, tooled ashlar

dressings. Asymmetrical 3-bay, L-plan E front with lean-to

porch in re-entrant angle with side entrance; bipartite

at left, projecting rectangular 3-light bay window at right.

1st floor tripartite in projecting gable, 2 gabled dormers

break wallhead. 2-pane glazing. Coped end stacks; slate roof.