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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 563893
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/563893
St Mary on the Rock, 1870-1, G E Street. On rising ground, hard by the river, sophisticated early middle-pointed design in
dark granite with lighter dressings, freestone windows and stringcourses. The sense of height is enhanced by steeply pitched roofs and, on west, a lean-to narthex with five lancets enclosed in a depressed arch above. Organ chamber on
south wall, narrow apsidal chancel, vestry on north and, at the junction of nave and chancel, a neat spirelet which transforms itself imperceptibly from square to octagonal to circular plan. Inside is a pointed waggon-roof with tie rods, a good original stone pulpit, coloured marble reredos, two-seat sedilia and piscina. Sacrarium with brass door by Hardman; good glass, by Clayton & Bell, on north side of nave and chancel, more, by Lavers & Barreau, on south side of nave.
The original decoration, now plastered over, was by A E Street, to designs by his father. Rectory by Butterfield, sadly added to and recast, c.1926.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
