Parish Church, Balmoral Road, New Rattray

Dated 1912, the building was later converted to halls in the mid-1960s. It is a rectangular-plan, gothic-detailed former Free Church, comprising a 4-bay aisless nave and a 3-stage angle tower. The exterior is constructed of narrow bull-faced bands of red sandstone with dressed ashlar margins. Architectural features include pointed-arch openings, traceried and trefoil-headed windows, hoodmoulds with label stops (some floreate), 3-stage saw-tooth coped buttresses, voussoirs, stone mullions, chamfered reveals, and raked cills.

The north-east (principal) elevation features a stone-cross finialled gable with steps leading to a deeply moulded doorpiece containing a 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative ironwork brackets and a dated tympanum. Flanking bays contain hoodmoulded square-headed tripartite windows with trefoil-headed lights, and above is a large hoodmoulded 3-light geometric-traceried window. A full-height pinnacled buttress stands to the right, with a tripartite window and a low set-back bay beyond, and the tower projects at the outer left.

The east angle tower consists of a squat first stage with a modern door to the south-east and a small window to the north-east. Similar windows are on these two elevations at the second stage, with larger louvered bipartite openings to the north-east, south-east, and south-west at the third stage, all beneath a continuous hoodmould that gives way to a battlemented parapet and a set-back spire with a decorative cast-iron weathervane. A rooflight is situated on the south-west.

The south-east elevation displays four windows with dividing buttresses along the nave; the window to the left of centre was converted to a door, now blocked. A low piend-roofed bay projects at the outer left, with a boarded timber door and a 2-part fanlight on its right return.

The north-west elevation presents three windows to the right and a projecting gabled bay to the left.

The south-west elevation is dominated by a large window set in the gablehead above a low piend-roofed bay.

The windows largely feature a leaded multi-pane glazing pattern with coloured margins to the top lights over reinforced glass panels, with some windows blocked; coloured glass is present in the traceried north-east window. The roof is covered with grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews incorporate moulded skewputts.

The interior is galleried, with boarded timber dadoes and architraved panelled timber doors with top lights, some retaining small-pane margined leaded glazing. A timber-lined hammerbeam roof features decorative ventilators. A raked gallery with fixed timber pews is located to the north-east, while the south-west has been converted to a stage. The narthex contains a WWI memorial, an octagonal font, and a timber-balustered turnpike stair with ball-finialled rectangular-plan fluted newel posts.

The site is enclosed by low saddleback-coped boundary walls with decorative inset ironwork railings and a gate incorporating an arch.