High Street, St Mary's Church Hall, Banff
Description: High Street, St Mary's Church Hall
Category: C(S)
Date Listed: 15 March 1995
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22023
OS Grid Coordinates: 368897, 863813
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6631, -2.5229
Location: 1 Back Path, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1AP
Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1AP
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Listing Text
G Bennett Mitchell, Aberdeen, architect, 1938. Harled rectangular church hall on steeply sloping site, with generous use of tooled ashlar dressings and margins. Entrance gable to High Street with wide ashlar corniced doorpiece fronting recessed doorway below radial fanlight. Long 6-bay N return elevation to Back Path terminating as advanced 2-storey gable with corniced doorway below lunette. Back Path elevation lit by 5 mullioned and transomed 3-light timber windows linked by sill course and deep eaves course. 2-storey semi-circular apse (after that of St Mary's Church) fronts rear 2-storey E gable. Simple leaded glazing. Apex cross; slate roof.
References:
BANFFSHIRE JOURNAL, 2 August, 1938. Report of laying of foundation stone.
Notes:
The hall was gifted to St Mary's Church by Miss Martin of St Catherine's, St Catherine Street, Banff together with her cousins, Misses Helen and Susan Martin. Corner site with Back Path.
Source: Historic Scotland
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