Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 560667
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/560667
Tomintoul Church was built in 1826, following the 1824 Parliamentary Act for Building Additional Places of Worship in Scotland, and hence is known as a 'Parliamentary' church.
Parliamentary churches were built with economy and function in mind, following a simple plan, based upon the requirements of Presbyterian worship, with the congregation seated around the communion table and pulpit.
It was the famous engineer Thomas Telford who was commissioned to supply the general design for the parliamentary churches, but local circumstances often meant that there were some variations from Telford's basic design.
The church in Tomintoul now bears little resemblance to a typical Telford church, following rebuilding work in 1900. The church was altered and re-faced in a style reminiscent of medieval churches: the front was divided into a series of four buttressed bays, a gabled porch was added, and the windows were re-worked in the pointed gothic form. The interior was also re-modelled at this time.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
