Building record MAB39426 - ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, FASQUE

Chapel, originally built as a private chapel for Fasque House (NO67NW0016) by Sir John Gladstone and now the community Episcopal Church, built by architect John Henderson, Edinburgh, in 1846-47 and consecrated by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and friend of Sir John, on 28 August 1847.

Chapel, originally built as a private chapel for Fasque House (NO67NW0016) by Sir John Gladstone and now the community Episcopal Church, built by architect John Henderson, Edinburgh, in 1846-47 and consecrated by Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford and friend of Sir John, on 28 August 1847. Worshippers at the chapel approached by different paths depending upon their social position, with estate servants using the less ornate route. The chancel was added in 1867 and there were alterations by Alexander Ross, Alexander Ross and Son, and John Alistair Ross between 1907 and 1923. It is a well-detailed Early English/Early Decorated Episcopal Chapel with a crypt built for Sir John Gladstone. The three-bay buttressed nave is rectangular-plan with a vestry forming a T-projection at the north, a cusped bellcote at the west gable, traceried windows and a fine interior. The building is constructed from ashlar with long and short work quoins and the nave interior is of Caen stone. There is a raked base course, string courses forming a cill course, a continuous hoodmould and eaves course, voussoirs, two-stage buttresses that are diagonal at the angles, stone mullions, chamfered reveals and raked cills. Boarded timber doors have decorative ironwork. There is figurative coloured glass and diamond and square leaded glazing patterns, some with decorative glass and borders. The roof has small grey slates, ashlar-coped skews and moulded skewputts and there are cast iron and square-section downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings and decorative ironwork ventilator grilles. A little-altered interior scheme remains in place, including the nave with panelled dadoes, fixed timber pews, a hammerbeam-type roof and early suspended light fittings. There is a side arch at the north-east with an organ and leading to the vestry. The chancel arch has stop-chamfering and leads to the chancel with flanking choir stalls, carved altar rails, a decoratively tiled floor, blind arcading at the dado and a hammerbeam roof. Mural monuments include a large high relief semicircular-arched marble stone with Sir John Gladstone and his wife Ann Robertson. The west window commemorates Robert Gladstone (died 1835) and there is a memorial chancel to John Neilson Gladstone (died 1863) with the east window depicting St Andrew with Evangelists symbols. The parsonage to the south (NO67SE0093) was probably extended and altered when this chapel was built, becoming the parsonage for this chapel.

Period Notes
Listed 18/08/1972.built in 1846-47 with additions dated 1867 and alterations in 1907-1923.

AOC ARCHAEOLOGY, 2010, FASQUE ESTATE ABERDEENSHIRE: ARCHAEOLOGICAL DESK BASED ASSESSMENT AND STANDING BUILDING APPRAISAL (Bibliographic reference). SAB3558.

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Jul 13 2020 3:16PM