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

FIFE STREET, ST MARY OF THE ASSUMPTION ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, HALL AND GATEPIERSLB24723

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
22/02/1972
Local Authority
Moray
Planning Authority
Moray
Burgh
Dufftown
NGR
NJ 32734 39897
Coordinates
332734, 839897

Description

CHURCH: Rev Walter Lovi, 1825 enlarged 1925. Rectangular

church orientated N-S. Grey rubble granite, tooled sandstone

dressings. 3-bay S entrance gable (facing street) with bays

delineated by buttresses rising above crenellated wallhead

(pinnacles missing) as flanking archways each side of church.

3 pointed-headed windows with intersecting tracery and centre

gablet oculus; apex cross.

Plain 3-bay flanks with N end bay lit by oculi. Local slate

roof.

INTERIOR: simple groin vaulted interior with ribs rising

from carved corbel stones; extended 1925 chancel with

panelled dado and joisted timber ceiling. Green and white

marble altar with oak canopy (both by John Devlin).

Gallery across S end of church housing organ; bowed front

supported by 4 slender cast-iron columns; slender turned

balusters supporting moulded rail.

HALL: mid 19th century church hall flanks church at E. Harled

with ashlar dressings. S frontage with large centre transomed

and mullioned window flanked left by smaller window and right

by door, all hoodmoulded; multi-pane glazing. centre

keystoned niche in gablet; apex bellcote.

GATEPIERS: bull-faced granite gatepiers with simple caps;

decorative wrought- and cast-iron pedestrian gate under

decorative overthrow.

Flanking coped bullfaced retaining walls.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Presbytery, completely remodelled in 1930's, not included in

listing.

Hall was school.

References

Bibliography

NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT xiii (1836) pp.106, 108. George Hay,

THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST REFORMATION CHRUCHES 1560-

1843 (1957), pp.157, 250. Peter Anson, 'Catholic Church

Building in Scotland from the Reformation until the Outbreak

of the First World War, 1560-1914' INNES REVIEW v (1954),

p.131 pl.ix. Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh PL 3/100/2

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.

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