Rothes Kirk, Rothes

1780-1. T-plan random rubble church with tooled granite

ashlar dressings and margins. Additions and alterations,

vestry, 1812; heightening, 1868: clock towr, A and W Reid,

1870: internal renovations, 1887.

Long symmetrical N elevation with 4 round-headed windows;

round-headed entrance in E gable and in base of tower at W;

further door now a window in centre of rear bowed wing.

Square tooled ashlar 4-stage clock tower with stages

delineated by moulded string-courses, 3rd stage with clasped

pilasters and tall louvred openings with shallow stage above

with clock faces breaking wallhead under semi-circular

cornice; pyramidal spire with banded decorative fishscale

slating and cast-iron weathervane.

Small projecting rear single storey vestry with canted gable. Lattice-pane glazing; slate roofs, piended on rear bowed

wing.

INTERIOR: renovated 1887 retaining traditional layout grouped

around central pulpit fronting organ (1894) in centre of N

wall; panelled front to 5-sided gallery with cusped

detailing.