Kintore, The Square, Parish Church
Church (19th Century)
Site Name Kintore, The Square, Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Aberdeen, Kintore Church; Kintore Church And Sacrament House
Canmore ID 18598
Site Number NJ71NE 39
NGR NJ 79324 16296
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/18598
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Kintore
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
Parish Church, 1819, Archibald Simpson. Distinguished Gothic rectangle in granite ashlar, three round-headed, hood-moulded windows on south flank, buttressed and pinnacled west end topped by pyramid-roofed bellcote. 16th-century sacrament house inside, from preceding kirk, carved with angels bearing a monstrance, and some good 18th century
tombs and a double-sided early Pictish stone in the kirkyard. The elegant arched gate in Kemnay granite is the war memorial.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ71NE 39.00 79324 16296
(NJ 7932 1629) Church (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1938).
NJ71NE 39.01 centred NJ 7935 1628 churchyard
For Pictish symbol stone and stone pestle, see NJ71NE 33 and NJ71NE 89 respectively.
For former manse (now Goosecroft House) at NJ 7918 1634, see NJ71NE 112.
For present manse (NJ 7917 1630), see NJ71NE 113.
The present parish church of Kintore was built in 1819, upon the site of the old church which is believed to be about the same age as Kinkell Church (NJ71NE 18), which dates from 1528.
A Watt 1864.
There was an exhorter (later the minister) at Kintore in 1567.
H Scott et al 1915-61.
The church, which clearly began as the castle chapel (Kintore Castle - NJ71NE 32) was dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
W D Simpson 1943.
1819, Archibald Simpson, architect; late additions.
G Hay 1957.
The present church is in normal use. All that remains of its predecessor is a Sacrament House, preserved over the steps to the gallery inside the church on the SE side.
Visited by OS (NKB) 17 March 1964.
Kintore Parish Church (C of S) [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1965.
NJ71NE 39.00 79324 16296
NJ71NE 39.01 centred NJ 7935 1628 churchyard
NMRS REFERENCE:
Aberdeen, Kintore Church.
Two memorial windows by William Wilson 1956-57 (Source - Aberdeenshire 3rd Statistical Account, published 1960).
Architect: Archibald Simpson, 1818?
Photographs: Bedford Lemere Book 5 19691 - Negatives of Lord Shands Monument.
Photographic Survey (April 1955)
Photographic survey by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1954.
