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Free Church, South Street, Elgin

A Category C Listed Building in Elgin, Moray

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Coordinates

Latitude: 57.6471 / 57°38'49"N

Longitude: -3.3171 / 3°19'1"W

OS Eastings: 321481

OS Northings: 862671

OS Grid: NJ214626

Mapcode National: GBR L85H.WSB

Mapcode Global: WH6JF.01PZ

Plus Code: 9C9RJMWM+R5

Entry Name: Free Church, South Street, Elgin

Listing Name: South Street, Free Church

Listing Date: 20 August 1981

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 372032

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30891

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200372032

Location: Elgin

County: Moray

Town: Elgin

Electoral Ward: Elgin City South

Traditional County: Morayshire

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Description

Architect, Mr Bisset, 1862-63. Gothic, rectangular plan.
Coursed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings. Gable end to
South Street with paired centre doorways recessed under
moulded Gothic arch with nook shafts and centre colonette
to trumeau; 3 trefoil lights in tympanum; string course
at impose level; 6 arcaded lancets (2 blind) above with
nook shafts and continuous hoodmould; louvred bull's
eye above and crocketted finial to apex. 5-bay flanks to
Hall Place, with paired Gpthic lancets and alternating
buttresses. Angle buttresses; steeply pitched slate
roof; lattice glazing.
Simple Gothic galleried interior (gallery now divided by
internal screen).

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Former Elgin South Street United Presbyterian Church. Dated

1863 above doorway.

Corner site with Hall Place. Quarrywood free-stone from

quarries of Humphrey and Rennie; slates probably from

Foudland or Gartly, Aberdeenshire.

Former Item 203 (1981 Revised List).

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