Basic Site Details Name: | St Mary's Parish Church | Town, district or village: | Banff | City or county: | Banffshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Extract from Banff Kirk Sessions minutes 1918-1938 CH2/1109/10:
25 July 1929 Report of the Committee appointed by the congregation on 8th October 1926 to carry out the scheme of Renovation of Banff Parish Church …plans and specifications prepared by Messrs Jeffrey Waddell & Young, Architects, Glasgow, the estimated cost being £7,900. To encourage the congregation the Misses Martin, St Catherine, Banff generously agreed to give the chancel, apse, organ chamber, vestry and rebuild the organ…
The Misses Martin in addition to the gift already referred to gave three stained glass windows placed in the apse, the Pulpit, Communion Table, Baptismal Font, several new stops for the organ thereby greatly enhancing its tone and power, pew bookshelves and £50 towards renovating the windows, and Mr and Mrs George Cumming, Cliffdale gave a stained glass window in memory of their parents which was placed in the north wall of the chancel… Included in the list of expenditure was £500 to Messrs Stephen Adam, Glasgow for windows. The Scotsman 7 Jan, 1929 p11 which concludes with the following information: The apse is enriched with three stained glass windows from the Stephen Adam Studios. The organ is a fine re-construction by Mr H Hilsdon. The works have been carried out to the design of Jeffrey Waddell & Young, architects, Glasgow. The Scotsman also comments on the gift of the communion table, font and pulpit. There is no indication either in the Kirk Sessions minutes or the newspaper article that these were in fact given some 20 years earlier. It sounds to me as if the whole lot may well have been given at the same, later date, unless you have contemporary evidence of the earlier date.
| Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Parish Church | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | High Street | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1778 | | Build/construction | | | 1789 | 1790 | Build/construction | Church and first stage of tower built to Wilson's designs | | 1829 | | Addition | New plans for completion of tower - not executed until 1849 | | 1849 | | | Spire added | | 1877 | | Reconstruction | Renovations including interior work | | 1926 | 1928 | Alterations and additions | Church re-ordered and new apse | | 1929 | | Design exhibited | Apsed chancel added and furnishings | | 1996 | | Addition | Kitchen extension | | 2004 | | Alteration/conversion | Alterations for the disabled |
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Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes | | St Mary's Parish Church hall | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Banff Preservation and Heritage Society | 2012 | Banff Through Time | | Stroud: Amberley Publishing | p21 Good photo | | Colvin, Howard | 2008 | A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 | | London: YUP. 4th edition | | | Cramond, William | 1893 | Annals of Banff | | | pp30, 156, 205, 219, (and volukme 2 344, 398) | | Hay, George | 1957 | The Architecture of Scottish Post-Reformation Churches 1560-1843 | | Oxford: Clarendon Press | pp.30, 156, 205 and 219.
| | McKean, Charles | 1990 | Banff and Buchan: an illustrated guide | | | p19 | | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | | xiii, p34 | | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1929 | | | | 190 | | RSA | 1929 | | | | 603 | | Statistical Account of Scotland | | Statistical Account of Scotland | | | | | Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray | | Yale University Press | pp28, 80, 81 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Scotsman | 7 January 1929 | | | p11 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of David W Walker | Information sent to Dictionary | | Sent November 2013. | | Courtesy of Harry Mantell | Information sent via'Contact Us' on DSA website | | Sent October 2009 | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 22029 | | | Moray Heritage Library | Moray Archives | | DAW P303/3 (For drawings of tower and spire) | | National Archives of Scotland | Banff Parish Church Kirk Session MInutes | CH2/1109/10 | Banff Kirk Sessions minutes 1918-1938. 25 July 1929. | | National Archives of Scotland (formerly SRO) | Heritors Records | HR 721/1 | |
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