Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

PITMEDDEN FORMER FREE CHURCHLB19255

Status: Designated

Documents

There are no additional online documents for this record.

Summary

Category
B
Date Added
08/04/1993
Local Authority
Aberdeenshire
Planning Authority
Aberdeenshire
Parish
Udny
NGR
NJ 89303 27377
Coordinates
389303, 827377

Description

Circa 1860's. Hall church, plain Early Gothic style; on raised ground prominently sited in centre of village; pink squared and stugged sandstone with finely dressed margins; rectangular plan, 6 bays deep, each bay divided by wall buttress and lit at ground and gallery levels by single lancet windows with fixed metal window frames and clear glazing with margins.

Entrance to centre of front (SW) gabled elevation, pointed arched doorway set in steeply-pitched shallow-projecting entrance bay (not a full porch); 3-light gallery window above, each light a stilted lancet, with elongated, cusped plate tracery and simple coloured (blue and red) glass in quatrefoils, hood-mould continuous around 3 lancets; small blind quatrefoil to right of 3-light window, with pointed hood-mould; gable head coped and stepped up midway; masonry cross finial at apex. Rectangular-plan 4-stage clock and bell tower at W (left-hand) angle, slightly project to front (SW) and side (NW), with pair flanking wall buttresses to each elevation, clocks set beneath steeply-pitched masonry gablets at centre points on each elevation at 3rd stage, tower broached above to meet narrower square-plan upper belfry stage, with single segmental-pointed lancets, with timber louvres, capped by tall pyramid roof, slated with red tiled decorative banding, and with decorative iron weather-vane finial. Steeply pitched roof, slated, with decorative polychrome band at mid-point in slopes of roof, of red and green slates. Small lean-to roofed single-storey kitchen to rear (NE).

INTERIOR: U-plan timber gallery supported on Egyptian style cast-iron columns with cluster shafts and palmette capitals; gallery fronts stencilled in black with decorative floral borders and stylised fleur-de-lys frieze band; clock at centre of gallery front; herring-bone effect timber-lined roof, in two types of timber, lighter and darker in colour, pendant roof posts also decorated with stencilling. Contemporary pulpit with cusped panels at centre of NE (liturgical E) end (panelled, approached by steps with decorative cast-iron balustrade to either side) ; communion table in front of pulpit with banded column supports and cusped spandrels. Simple coloured stained glass in triangular pointed window above pulpit. Bench pews.

Enclosing wall to street and cast-iron railings with pierced cusped spear heads. Cast-iron, late 19th century decorative lamp carried in arch over entrance steps, glass of lamp replaced circa 1970's.

Statement of Special Interest

Now Church of Scotland. Prominent feature in the landscape. Consideration currently being given to a rear extension, and re-arrangement of seating within the church. (1993).

References

Bibliography

Possibly the new church to be built "on a more satisfacotry site" in 1864 to replace the previous Free church (built in 1844); SEE ANNALS OF THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND 1843-1900 VOL II, Rev Wm Ewing, 1914, p188. Built by the time of the Ordnance Survey of 1865-71: See OS Namebooks, Aberdeenshire Book 91, Reel 15, in which it is recorded that the village, "contains the Free Church manse and church school...".

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

While Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating listed buildings, the planning authority is responsible for determining what is covered by the listing, including what is listed through curtilage. However, for listed buildings designated or for listings amended from 1 October 2015, legal exclusions to the listing may apply.

If part of a building is not listed, it will say that it is excluded in the statutory address and in the statement of special interest in the listed building record. The statement will use the word 'excluding' and quote the relevant section of the 1997 Act. Some earlier listed building records may use the word 'excluding', but if the Act is not quoted, the record has not been revised to reflect subsequent legislation.

Listed building consent is required for changes to a listed building which affect its character as a building of special architectural or historic interest. The relevant planning authority is the point of contact for applications for listed building consent.

Find out more about listing and our other designations at www.historicenvironment.scot/advice-and-support. You can contact us on 0131 668 8914 or at designations@hes.scot.

Images

There are no images available for this record, you may want to check Canmore for images relating to PITMEDDEN FORMER FREE CHURCH

There are no images available for this record.

Search Canmore

Printed: 29/03/2024 10:39