Location
Arbuthnott Street - in the town centre
Stonehaven, Kincardine
OS Map Reference
NO 873 857
Date
Various
Description
Architects Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, nave 1875-7; Anderson with Arthur Clyne, chancel, organ chamber and vestry 1883-5, builder John Morgan; Arthur Clyne, narthex and baptistery 1906, latter with Sir Ninian Comper glass of 1929. Transitional church with 5-bay nave, low buttressed side aisles and clerestorey, crowstepped lean-to narthex and semi-octagonal baptistery with prismatic roof. NE organ chamber, SE sacristy and choir vestry of semi-octagonal plan, adjoining slim tower with circular belfry stage; apsidal choir. Squared and snecked rubble with some Aberdeen bond, and ashlar dressings. Deep base course, continuous hoodmoulds forming string courses, eaves course and blocking courses to baptistery and vestry. Principally round-arched openings, quatrefoil and trefoil-headed to vestry, pointed-arch to NW aisle openings, and vessica to NW gablehead of nave. Squat, 2-stage coped buttresses; voussoirs; hoodmoulds with label stops; raked cills; chamfered reveals. 2-leaf vertically-boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges. INTERIOR: fine arcaded Romanesque interior with round columns and uncut capitals, clerestory windows and hammeberbeam roof to nave; tall chancel arch and ribbed timber-lined barrel-vaulted roof to chancel and apse. Fixed timber pews. Narthex with 2-leaf screen door in pointed-arch opening with decoratively-astragalled leaded panels and fanlight. Apse with high altar and elaborately sculptured reredos.
Related Information
For exterior views see the external link to the church's website
Era
1800s
Information Source
Listed building report, booklet on history of St. James, available in church and church website.
Related Artefacts
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, carving of the head of Christ
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, Duff Memorial
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, organ
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, pulpit
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, Reredos
- St James the Great, Episcopal Church Stonehaven, stained glass
Categories
Iconography
- cross, Greek
- star
External Links
Photographer
- Pat Copner
Unavailable Data
- Creator
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