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Latitude: 57.6131 / 57°36'47"N
Longitude: -2.6324 / 2°37'56"W
OS Eastings: 362316
OS Northings: 858302
OS Grid: NJ623583
Mapcode National: GBR M8VL.QT2
Mapcode Global: WH8M0.JXQ2
Plus Code: 9C9VJ979+63
Entry Name: Beechgrove And War Memorial
Listing Name: Beechgrove, (Former Ord Church of Scotland) and War Memorial
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 334025
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB3047
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200334025
Location: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Parish: Banff
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1835-6; additions and alterations, James Duncan and Son, Turriff, 1899. Closed 1972; secularised circa 1975. Rectangular church, harled with tooled granite ashlar dressings and margins. Entrance in E gable masked by gabled porch, circa 1975, echoing to rear W gable vestry added 1899. Former vestry with door in S elevation, flanked by window and with end chimney stack. 4 long round-arched, keystoned windows light S elevation. Multi-pane, margined glazing to these and single
square-headed former gallery window in each gable gable. Birdcage ashlar bellcote at E gable apex (no bell survives); ball finial at W. Slate roofs.
INTERIOR: converted as dwellinghouse, re-using some 1899 balusters.
WAR MEMORIAL: small granite war memorial, 1914-19 with additional inscription to those killed 1939-45.
Plans of 1899 (quoted above) also reveal layout of 1835/6 church with pulpit in middle of S wall, long centre communion table and gallery. Church re-cast in 1899 to W, with minister's vestry added to W gable, pulpit against W wall and rows of seats divided by 2 side aisles.
The appointment of the Rev David Brown as pastor to Ord was reported in the ABERDEEN JOURNAL. The report notes that 'this place of worship has become much wanted...and appears greatly valued'. Ord Church served a congregation drawn from the fringes of Ordiquhill, Banff, Marnoch and Alvah parishes, inconveniently distant from their respective parish churches.
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