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Summary

Description

Archibald Sipson, 1832-4; additions and alterations,

Alexander Ross, 1874.

2-tier Gothic church, combining Parsonage (former school) in

ground floor and chapel in 1st floor. Orientated N-S with S

entrance gable to Castle Street. Tooled ashlar entrance

gable, harled flanks, tooled and polished ashlar dressings.

Austere S gable with round-headed entrance (simple nookshafts

and moulded reveals) in centre and triple light

pointed-headed window above linked by cill course and

continuous hoodmould; flanking square clasping buttresses

with blind slits and terminating as octagonal gablet detailed

pinnacles with stiff-leaf finials. Projecting 2-storey stair

wing at W (1874).

Triple light window in 1st floor at N gable with (1874) rose

window above. Slate roofs.

Entrance to Gordon Chapel House in W elevation; varied

glazing to windows; single storey wing at NE with piended

roof.

INTERIOR OF CHAPEL: entrance lobby with mural memorial dated

1838. Stairs (installed 1874) lead to Chapel largely

redesigned and refurnished 1874. Flat ceiling removed and

replaced by hammer-beam roof; pine dado, pews and pulpit;

brass communion rail; richly stencilled N chancel wall.

Stained glass by Morris and Co, some designed by Sir Edward

Burne-Jones; E window depicting crucifixion (and probably

dating from 1874), 2 windows on W wall and 3 in E wall

depicting variously St Cecilia (1879), St Ursula (1887),

Archangel Raphael (1902), Christ the Good Shepherd (1903) and

St Michael (1914).

Later 19th century decorative brass wall light brackets.

Grey-white oval marble font with swagged and panelled sides

supported by slender stem on plinth (possibly re-used from

elsewhere).

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Chapel and school given by Elizabeth, wife of 5th Duke of

Gordon. Mural tablet in entrance lobby commemorates Alexina

Mackintosh, who died in 1838 aged 21 having been a school

teacher for 4 years.

Unusual 2-tier plan-form.

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