Gordon Episcopal Chapel And Parsonage, Fochabers

Archibald Sipson, 1832-4; additions and alterations,

Alexander Ross, 1874.

2-tier Gothic church, combining Parsonage (former school) in

ground floor and chapel in 1st floor. Orientated N-S with S

entrance gable to Castle Street. Tooled ashlar entrance

gable, harled flanks, tooled and polished ashlar dressings.

Austere S gable with round-headed entrance (simple nookshafts

and moulded reveals) in centre and triple light

pointed-headed window above linked by cill course and

continuous hoodmould; flanking square clasping buttresses

with blind slits and terminating as octagonal gablet detailed

pinnacles with stiff-leaf finials. Projecting 2-storey stair

wing at W (1874).

Triple light window in 1st floor at N gable with (1874) rose

window above. Slate roofs.

Entrance to Gordon Chapel House in W elevation; varied

glazing to windows; single storey wing at NE with piended

roof.

INTERIOR OF CHAPEL: entrance lobby with mural memorial dated

1. Stairs (installed 1874) lead to Chapel largely

redesigned and refurnished 1874. Flat ceiling removed and

replaced by hammer-beam roof; pine dado, pews and pulpit;

brass communion rail; richly stencilled N chancel wall.

Stained glass by Morris and Co, some designed by Sir Edward

Burne-Jones; E window depicting crucifixion (and probably

dating from 1874), 2 windows on W wall and 3 in E wall

depicting variously St Cecilia (1879), St Ursula (1887),

Archangel Raphael (1902), Christ the Good Shepherd (1903) and

St Michael (1914).

Later 19th century decorative brass wall light brackets.

Grey-white oval marble font with swagged and panelled sides

supported by slender stem on plinth (possibly re-used from

elsewhere).