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Sandyhill Road, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Rc Church, Banff

Description: Sandyhill Road, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Rc Church

Category: B
Date Listed: 15 March 1995
Historic Scotland Building ID: 22090

OS Grid Coordinates: 368702, 863562
Latitude/Longitude: 57.6609, -2.5262

Location: 2 Bellevue Road, Banff, Aberdeenshire AB45 1FJ

Locality: Banff
County: Aberdeenshire
Country: Scotland
Postcode: AB45 1FJ

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Listing Text

Alexander Ellis, 1870. Small gothic church. Dark local whinstone, grey ashlar margins and dressings. Entrance porch in S elevation; buttressed gable with paired lights to street with small 3-stage spire and fronted by low chapel.
INTERIOR: galleried interior; liturgical E orientated to W: ribbed
vaulted ceiling; gothic style carved wooden reredos with marble front; advanced altar. Panelled dado surmounted by painted Stations of the Cross, each within wooden frame. Plain pews. Small chapel at E gable.

References:
Wm Cramond, ANNALS OF BANFF ii (1893), p 163.

Notes:
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, recalling the medieval Carmelite association in Banff. Presbytery is listed separately.

Source: Historic Scotland

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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