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Building Survey at Keithhall Church, Keithhall, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
Date 6 November 2023
Event ID 1187267
Category Recording
Type Standing Building Recording
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1187267
NJ 80212 20960 A level 1 standing building survey was carried out. Keithhall and Kinkell Parish Church is late 18th century in date and has a corbel inscribed 1772 on the SW corner of the exterior roof. The church was a plain rectangular form with vestry added to the centre of the north wall, possibly contemporary with the original building. The pulpit was in the centre of the N wall in the original form of the church with vestry adjacent with fireplace on the E wall. There were two sets of stairs on the E and W walls to access the gallery and there is a plan from 1876 showing this design; the stairs on the E wall were removed, presumably around 1920 to allow the pulpit to be moved to it's present location. Pews were aligned facing the pulpit. Around 1920 the interior was re-aligned and the pulpit moved to the centre of the E wall, vestry added in brick on the E wall with fireplace on the E wall. This was subdivided and there is a 1968 plan showing this division. There is an EH Lawton of Aberdeen organ dated 1907 but the organ pipes were removed to Great Ormond Street Hospital to create an art installation. Stained glass survives in several windows; a plaque and one stained glass window dedicated to the fallen in World War I were moved to Fintray church in 2019.
Information from A. Cameron - Cameron Archaeology.
OASIS ID: camerona1-522208
