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Latitude: 57.6605 / 57°39'37"N
Longitude: -2.749 / 2°44'56"W
OS Eastings: 355406
OS Northings: 863646
OS Grid: NJ554636
Mapcode National: GBR M8KG.Z9M
Mapcode Global: WH7KM.RQ48
Plus Code: 9C9VM762+59
Entry Name: Parish Church, Fordyce
Listing Name: Fordyce Village, Church Street, Fordyce Parish Church (Church of Scotland) and Enclosing Walls
Listing Date: 22 February 1972
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 343118
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB10636
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Fordyce, Parish Church
ID on this website: 200343118
Location: Fordyce
County: Aberdeenshire
Electoral Ward: Banff and District
Parish: Fordyce
Traditional County: Banffshire
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1804, renovated and re-cast, 1894. Substantial
rectangular church with 4-bay S elevation. Harled,
ashlar margins and dressings. Centre round-headed
and keystoned entrance with blocked imposts in E and W gables;
similarly detailed gallery window above and square loft
window in each gable. Regular round-headed keystoned
4-bay fenestration in long S elevation, no windows in N.
Multi-pane glazing. Late 19th century vestry window at
left of entrance.
Circa 1830 bellcote at E gable apex with anthemion angle
acroteria and shaped finial; ball finial at W; Banffshire
slate roof. 1702 bell.
INTERIOR: re-cast and diminished in size, 1894. 5-sided
gallery survives, but wall inserted to cut off W portion;
new wall fronted by large organ and by communion table; low
later 19th century octagonal pulpit stands near site of
original pulpit by S wall; plain pews; plank dado.
Various plain 19th century mural memorials.
ENCLOSING WALLS: coped rubble wall encloses church E and S;
pair flat arched entrances in E wall closed with double
leaf plank doors.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church dated on
skewputts in E gable. Bellcote in style of circa 1830 and
probably designed by William Robertson of Elgin who worked
extensively for the Heritors, the Earls of Seafield.
1702 bell re-used from Old Church.
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