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Community Centre, All Saints Episcopal Church, West Church Street, Buckie

A Category B Listed Building in Buckie, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6762 / 57°40'34"N

Longitude: -2.9662 / 2°57'58"W

OS Eastings: 342469

OS Northings: 865561

OS Grid: NJ424655

Mapcode National: GBR M81F.MWH

Mapcode Global: WH7KJ.DBQ5

Plus Code: 9C9VM2GM+FG

Entry Name: Community Centre, All Saints Episcopal Church, West Church Street, Buckie

Listing Name: Buckie, West Church Street, All Saints Episcopal Church Hall and Parsonage

Listing Date: 22 February 1972

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 358337

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB22721

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Buckie, West Church Street, All Saints Episcopal Church, Community Centre

ID on this website: 200358337

Location: Buckie

County: Moray

Town: Buckie

Electoral Ward: Buckie

Traditional County: Banffshire

Tagged with: Hall

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Description

CHURCH: Alexander Ross, 1876. Gothic. 4-bay rectangular
church with projecting 3-stage tower with entrance at SW
and apsidal chancel at E. Rubble, tooled and polished ashlar
dressings.
Entrance in base of tower flanked by small nook shafts
and with moulded pointed-headed tympanum. Paired lancets in
middle stage, moulded pointed-headed plate traceried windows
in upper stage, from which rises broached spire with
diminutive lucarnes and apex cast-iron weathervane.
Buttressed 3-bay S elevation with gabled plate traceried
windows breaking wallhead. Apsidal chancel lit by continuous
row of small cusped lights linked by pulvinated string
course at lintel height. Gable cross apices; slate roof,
bowed and piended at E.
INTERIOR: simple interior. Altar supported by paired
polished red granite shafts; some coloured glass but mainly
lattice-pane glazing; pine pulpit and pews; braced rafter
roof supported by moulded corbel heads.
CHURCH HALL: later 19th century rectangular gabled church
hall abuts W gable of church. Rubble tooled ashlar dressings.
3-bay entrance front to West Church Street with pointed-headed
centre door and flanking windows; oculus in set back gable;
multi-pane glazing; slate roof.
PARSONAGE: later 19th century 2-storey house linked to
church by simple narrow 3-bay wing. Rubble, tooled ashlar
dressings. Asymmetrical 3-bay, L-plan E front with lean-to
porch in re-entrant angle with side entrance; bipartite
at left, projecting rectangular 3-light bay window at right.
1st floor tripartite in projecting gable, 2 gabled dormers
break wallhead. 2-pane glazing. Coped end stacks; slate roof.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Corner site with

Cluny Square.

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