Inverurie, High Street, St Andrew's Church
Church (18th Century)
Site Name Inverurie, High Street, St Andrew's Church
Classification Church (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Parish Church Of St Andrew
Canmore ID 112605
Site Number NJ72SE 139
NGR NJ 77638 21115
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/112605
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Inverurie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Gordon
- Former County Aberdeenshire
St Andrew's Parish Church, High Street, 1841-2, John Smith. 'The style is gothic moderately ornamented' (NSA): a plain neo-Perpendicular rectangular box, barely enlivened at its three-bay eastern front by a clock, a spired bellcote and square and octagonal pinnacles. It is in rough granite ashlar with polished dressings - in all nothing to frighten the burghers. Interior altered, 1876 (sanctuary added), and refurbished, 1965, with good new woodwork and mosaics.
Taken from "Aberdeenshire: Donside and Strathbogie - An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Ian Shepherd, 2006. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NJ72SE 139 77611 21111
For associated manse and cottage (NJ 7733 2106 and 7731 2108), see NJ72SE 141.
Not to be confused with Inverurie, West High Street, West Church (NJ 7740 2156), for which see NJ72SE 143.
Church (C of S) [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1972.
Photographic Survey (February 1954 - March 1954)
Photographs of buildings in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, by the National Buildings Record Scottish Council in February and March 1954.
Publication Account (1977)
Inverurie parish church, along with others, was granted to Lindores Abbey by Earl David of Huntingdon at the end of the twelfth century, a grant mentioned in a papal bull of 1195 (Davidson, 1878, 25). Until 1775 the parish church stood in the northwest corner of the churchyard down by the Bass. There is little indication what material the building was constructed of, although an early seventeenth century entry in the burgh records refers to the townsmen bringing thatch to the church (Davidson, 1878, 197). From 1660 Kirk Session references to the dilapidated condition of the structure increase, with a bulwark being constructed at the end of the century to help save the fabric from the ravages of the flooding Don (Black, 1942, no page no.). A new parish church was not built in the High Street until 1775, with that building being replaced by the present South (now St. Andrew's) Parish Church in 1842. Although early this century portions of the foundations of the pre-1775 church were uncovered by gravedigging (Ritchie, 1911, 343), the only above-ground indication of the church site is a slight platform, described by the Ordnance Survey as too amphorous for survey, which might represent the church or be associated with later graves (Ordnance Survey Record Cards, Reference NJ 72 SE 15).
Information from ‘Historic Inverurie: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1977).
