Glenmuick Parish Church, Church Square, Ballater

J Russell Mackenzie, 1873-4. Rectangular plan Victorian Gothic church and church hall with distinctive canted entrance porch, 4-bay aisles to N and S and simple, largely unaltered interior. Engaged 2-stage stair and clock tower with stone spire to SE. Squared, coursed pink and grey granite. Prominent and commanding position in central square within village. Base course, trefoil headed windows, some with hoodmoulds. Church hall at W.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: gabled elevation with double height canted porch to E with central gabled entrance with paired, diagonally boarded timber doors set in Gothic sandstone arch with engaged columns with foliate capitals. Large 4-light geometric tracery style gabled window above. To left, pinnacled, battered tower with 3 small diagonally aligned windows on E face and wooden door on S face. Foundation stone (1873) set into E wall. Clock to top of 1st stage. Lucarned spire. Octagonal recessed steeple spire, rising from tower with pinnacles.

Geometric tracery style windows to E. Tall 2-light Y-tracery windows to E, and N and S aisles. Predominantly diamond leaded panes. Simple lancet windows to church hall. Grey graded slate. Gable end stacks to hall.

INTERIOR: simple, largely unaltered interior. Entrance hall with spiral timber stair to left with cast iron balusters to gallery. 4-bay round-arched nave supported by tall slender cast iron piers with foliate capitals. Gallery to E. Pine timberwork. Some box pews. Whitewashed with boarded dado. Original pews. Ensuite communion table, lectern, pulpit, baptismal font and organ panel. Some 20th century stained glass to S aisle, 1920s onwards.