North Parish Church, Cluny Square, Buckie

Duncan MacMillan, architect, 1878-9. Substantial Gothic

church; rectangular with S entrance gable and square

4-stage tower at SW. Tooled rubble, tooled and polished

ashlar dressings. Slightly projecting gabled centre entrance

in S gable with 2 doors divided by chamfered trumeau,

V-tracery in fanlight above. Double-leaf plank doors with

ornate cast-iron hinges. Large centre 5-light geometric

traceried window above with flanking stepped buttress at

right terminating as wallhead pinnacle; narrow outer right

single pointed-headed plate traceried window. 4-stage tower

with diagonal stepped buttresses; simple lancets in ground

stage, triple lancets in 2nd stage, large louvred plate

traceried windows in 3rd stage and clock faces in 4th stage

with angle pinnacles supporting simplified finialled crown.

Buttressed 5-bay W elevation with narrow lights. Rose window

in N gable. Cross apex at S gable; slate roof with small

triangular louvred vents.

INTERIOR: lofty interior galleried around 3 sides, gallery

with cusped panelled front supported by slender painted

cast-iron columns. Organ at N gable fronted by cusped

panelled pulpit reached by flight of stairs and fronted by

seating and communion table; mainly lattice-pane glazing.

Braced rafter roof rising from corbel-heads.