Stained Glass

An ornate memorial setting of stained glass and elaborate stone mullions flanked by the rolls of honour. The six allegorical figures are from left to right: Valour, Patriotism, Victory, Peace, Freedom and Justice.

Stained glass window, incorporating Banff town coat of arms. With its insignia of the Virgin Mary and plant motifs in the art nouveau style.

Chancel, window on theme of Sacrifice and Service; donated by Women's Guild, 1931. Shows the crucifixion with virgin and child above flanked by 2 Saints on either side. With smaller panels showing illustrations of biblical stories relevant to the theme. Text reads :"TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THIS CHURCH WHO LOVING THEIR LORD SERVED HIM IN LIFE AND DEATH."

The Church of the Immaculate Conception is the last remaining place of worship in Stonehaven's Old Town. It boasts details recognised as deriving from Notre-Dame-le-Grand, Poitiers and Chartres and despite the loss of some original glazing is nevertheless an important quiet place on its island site surrounded by roads and behind the High Street. The building date varies from 1875 to 1879 depending upon the source, but it is a certainty that funds for this fine church and the nearby Rickarton Cottages were provided by Mrs Eliza Maria Hepburn of Rickarton, as a memorial to her daughter. A sketch in Christie's 'Haven Under The Hill', entitled 'Church of St Mary' shows decorative ridge detail and a ship weathervane, neither of which are evident today (2004). He also mentions an American organ which was installed in April 1880. The priest´s house is located at the nearby (separately listed) Rickarton Cottages and is accessible from the church grounds. The nearby soup kitchen was presented to the church by George Blackie in 1905.
GENERAL: Architect J. Russell Mackenzie, 1877. Small, elaborately-detailed gothic church with 3-bay aisles nave, traceried and arcaded front, shallow gabled transepts, semicircular apse, polygonal baptistery and 4-stage buttressed tower with belfry and octagonal pinnacled spire. Coursed, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Deep base and eaves courses. Traceried circular openings, cusped lancets. 2-stage, sawtooth-coped and pinnacled buttresses. Voussoirs; chamfered reveals and raked cills. Timber doors with decorative ironwork.
GLASS: Coloured glass to NE traceried window depicting St Margarita (St Margaret Queen of Scotland, Saint Margaret (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093, canonised in 1251 by Pope Innocent IV); leaded diamond pattern glazing to apse and baptistry; some openings reglazed; figurative coloured glass lancet to SE transept (see Interior). Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron downpipes with polygonal rainwater hoppers.
INTERIOR: fine plain interior with moulded cornice, hammerbeam roof and decorative timber braces, timber pews and boarded dadoes; transept with double arch springing from low column with moulded capital. Apsidal chancel with elegant braced timber roof on stone corbels. Lancet to SE transept 'Come Holy Spirit' by Edinburgh Stained Glass House, 2003.
SOUP KITCHEN: Single storey, slated, rubble cottage known as 'soup kitchen'.The Soup Kitchen is now used as a meeting room. Work began on the Kitchen on 24th December 1904 on three days weekly, and closed on 18th March 1905.
The Kitchen was used in the 1940s but is thought to have ceased work in 1946. The building was then used for various purposes, and the Mearns Leader reported a visit by an interested townsperson in 1983 to the wood store.

A set of three stained glass windows produced in memory of missionary nurse and Macduff resident Elizabeth B Mantell 1941-1998. The windows which combine old and new Celtic and African art. A centre panel of hand painted sections display a portrait of Elizabeth Mantell nursing a child, the Macduff Parish Church and the Mulanje Mission Hospital in Malawi, where she developed high quality nursing and midwifery over a period of 14 years. The side panels combine the Saltire Cross and the Malawi flag. Traditional Celtic border.Elizabeth mantell was born in Africa, where her father was an agent of the African lakes, In 1952 the family moved to Macduff where she grew up.

House dated 1892, altered and extended. 2-storey, 5-bay, rectangular-plan, end terrace house (sub-divided) with keystoned and pedimented moulded door-piece, tall round-arched stair window with decorative astragals and coloured glass (the round medallions containing portrait heads) and some fine interior detail; on ground falling to S and E. Painted ashlar with ashlar margins, quoin strips and base course to W; ashlar with 1st floor cill course and eaves cornice to E.
W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: bay to right of centre with broad door-piece incorporating deep-set vertically-panelled timber door and flanking lights giving way to stair window, regular fenestration to flanking bay with further door in penultimate bay to left and single window to each floor at outer left.

A domestic stained glass door panel depicting a lighthouse and seascape with gulls and a passing trawler.

STAINED GLASS: some fine coloured glass, including apsidal window depicting 'Christ crucified' by Clayton & Bell of London, flanked by windows depicting on left, the carrying of the cross and the flagellation, and on right the descent from the cross; West window is a memorial to Dean Christie showing 'Christ's Baptism' and 'Baptism from the Tolbooth window' (this illustrates the Rev. Alexander Greig baptising infants from the Tolbooth window while imprisoned in 1748 by the Hanoverian authorities for holding a service attended by more than 5 persons); memorial windows to nave including 'The Good Samaritan' commemorating Leslie Thomson and family of Invercowie House, 'St James' memorial to the Adams Family (1832-1955), and 'Angel' in memory of Alexander Innes of Raemoor, died 1882. Sir Ninian Comper's baptistery windows commemorate David MacDonald, headmaster of Episcopal school.
The contemporary window is a memorial to Alice Moira Christie 1932-1999 beloved wife of Jack Emslie it was designed and made by her daughters Elaine and Gillian Emslie in 2000

The architect was Archibald Simpson 1833-34. Tudor gothic style. Listed category B.

Two stained glass windows dedicated to the Glory of God and in memory of the men of the congregation who lost their lives in the First World War 1914-1919. The window on the east side of the pulpit is based on the text "This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith," 1 John v., 4. The window on the west side is known as the Children's Window, the theme of this window is the text "Suffer little children to come to unto me, and forbid them not, for such is the Kingdom of Heaven." The Children's window is an especially fine piece of work and had the distinction of being shown in the Royal Academy, London, prior to its installation. Windows signed CW or WC in monogram form.

A contemporary front door with four inset stained glass panels forming a harbour landscape in naive style