Publication Account

Date 1996

Event ID 1016449

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1016449

This unassuming white-harled rural building, which may be mistaken for a line of cottages, is the oldest building erected after the Reformation for Roman Catholic worship in Scotland. Bui lt just nine years after Culloden, at a time when Catholics were regarded with suspicion if not direct hostility, this low building, in the Gordon lands of Enzie, was originally even more inconspicuous, having a thatched roof and no glazed windows. The ball finial on the west gable was added in 1779 by the priest George Matheson, who also glazed the windows and slated the roof. The interior is simple but pleasing, having been restored by Ian G Lindsay in 1951.

Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Aberdeen and North-East Scotland’, (1996).