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Fraserburgh, Old Parish Church
Church (19th Century) (1803)
Site Name Fraserburgh, Old Parish Church
Classification Church (19th Century) (1803)
Canmore ID 20763
Site Number NJ96NE 10
NGR NJ 99829 67076
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20763
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Fraserburgh
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ96NE 10.00 9982 6707
NJ96NE 10.01 NJ 99831 67065 Saltoun Mausoleum
The present parish church occupies the site of the old church, a cruciform building, erected in 1571, enlarged c 1628, repaired in 1688 and rebuilt in 1802.
OSA 1793; NSA 1845; J B Pratt 1901; J Cranna 1914.
Fraserburgh, Old. Designed by Alexander Morrice, 1804; renovated 1874.
G Hay 1957.
NJ 9982 6707. The present parish church, known as the Old Parish Church, is still in use as a place of worship. Beneath its clock tower, on the west front, is a stone bearing the date'1803'.
No information was obtained regarding the earlier church.
Visited by OS (NKB) 16 January 1969.
Publication Account (2010)
Its replacement, also designed by Alexander Morrice, was opened on the same site in 1803 (fig 23). The spire, aligned to close the vista down High Street, was also intended to serve as a navigation mark for seamen (see map 6 and broadsheet).244 Local tradition recounts that its construction was delayed for lack of funds, and it was eventually built shorter than the original design, to save money. A new manse was added in 1818, to the south of the town, on the road to Peterhead (fig 24).
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Fraserburgh: Archaeology and Development’, (2010).
