Building record MAB28437 - ST ANDREW'S OLD CHURCH, STRICHEN

Former parish church, remains of an earlier church and associated graveyard.

Former parish church, remains of an earlier church and associated graveyard. The original 17th century parish church is now much overgrown and the roof ruinous. It is rubble built with vaulted lower portion, skewputts, and a curved outside stair to a former Laird's loft above, with doorhead raised in roof. There is a fragment only of arch opening into church at the north gable. Surviving family burial aisle built by Thomas Fraser of Strichen. The later parish church (dedicated to St Andrew) was built in the late 18th century. It is rectangular in plan, harled with thin margins, four round-arched windows in the south flank, three small square windows at ground and gallery level in the north flank. There are plain doorways with venetian windows above in the gables and birdcage bellcote with ball finial at the west. There is a later session house at the southeast corner of the church. A tall chimney is built onto the south corners of the church to serve the vestry and session house fireplaces. The church was re-roofed, re-fitted, and re-glazed in late Victorian times, before which it had only an earthen floor and the roof was in poor state. Internally there was U-gallery on cast-iron columns. The graveyard is a rubble-walled enclosure with some 18th century grave-slabs. Roy's map 1747 shows a number of houses around the church. The church closed in 1961 and many of its artefacts were transferred to the Strichen Parish Church (NJ95NW0106) on the High Street. The church font is currently housed at a separate location. The original date of the font is unknown, but it is likely to be from 1884 when the Church was restored.

Period Notes
Original parish church erected 1620; present church built 1799; church refurnished 1890. Listed 15/02/1982

ORDNANCE SURVEY, 1871, Ordnance Name Book, No82(1870) 37 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1360.

JERVISE, A, 1879, EPITAPHS & INSCRIPTIONS,VOL 2, 135-43,423-4 (Bibliographic reference). SAB889.

GROOME, FH, 1884, ORDNANCE GAZETEER OF SCOTLAND, 1538 (Bibliographic reference). SAB603.

HAY, G., 1957, THE ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REF CHURCHES, 244 (Bibliographic reference). SAB720.

GREIG, 2010, PHOTOGRAPHS OF STRICHEN HOUSE, THE INTERIOR OFSTRICHEN KIRK AND THE GARDENERS COTTAGE, STRICHEN. (Bibliographic reference). SAB2617.

STURDY, AD, 2012, REPORT ON THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL POTENTIAL OF THE AREA FORMERLY KNOWN AS KIRKTOWN, STRICHEN (Bibliographic reference). SAB1760.

Feb 7 2022 , AAS-GR-22-02-036 - 049, AAS-GR-22-02-036 - 049 (Ground Photograph). SAB35634.

Feb 8 1990 , JW 23-26, JW 23-26 (Ground Photograph). SAB33769.

Jul 7 1985 , EQ 15-6, EQ 15-6 (Ground Photograph). SAB14864.

SDD, n.d., BLDS OF ARCH & HIST INTEREST, STRICHEN 1,2,3 (Bibliographic reference). SAB1827.

Sep 6 2018 , AAS-GR-18-09-022 - 073, AAS-GR-18-09-022 - 073 (Ground Photograph). SAB35436.

Sep 7 2018 , ABS-GR-18-09-001 - 006, ABS-GR-18-09-001 - 006 (Ground Photograph). SAB34315.

Record last edited

Nov 19 2024 11:35AM