St Margaret's Episcopal Church
The St Margaret's Episcopal Church is a profaniertes church building in the Scottish village of Braemar in the Council area Aberdeenshire . In 1972 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
With the purchase of Balmoral Castle by Queen Victoria in 1852, nearby Braemar became a popular holiday destination for the English upper class. For the majority episkopalkirchlich oriented Englishman that made Scottish Episcopal Church set up a Margaret Church in Braemar in the 1880th The land in the center of the village was donated by the Laird of Invercauld House . However, the wooden church soon proved to be too small. After sufficient donations had been collected, construction of today's St Margaret's Episcopal Church began in 1899. Architect John Ninian Comper from Aberdeen is responsible for their design . The construction was consecrated in 1907 .
After Queen Victoria's death in 1901, the flow of tourists to Braemar gradually ebbed. As a result, St Margaret's Church soon proved too big and the upkeep of the building was a burden on the parish. Because of this, St Margaret's Episcopal Church was abandoned in 1997 and the congregation moved to the Mar Lodge chapel . In 2001 the Scottish Episcopal Church offered the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust to take over the building. Hesitant at first, it was not until 2013 that the foundation bought the building for a price of one pound . As early as 2008, the vacant building was included in the register of endangered listed buildings in Scotland. In September 2015, work began to transform the church building into an art and cultural center.
description
St Margaret's Episcopal Church is on Glenshee Road ( A93 ) in central Braemar. It has almost the layout of a cruciform church , because the massive, crenellated central tower protrudes from the facade on both sides. The masonry of the neo-Gothic church consists of granite blocks of different colors, roughly cut into blocks . A wide tracery consisting of five lancet windows is embedded in the west gable facing the street . Another tracery can be found on the east gable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b Information about the history of the church building
- ↑ Information from the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust
- ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk
- ↑ Information from the Scottish Redundant Churches Trust
Web links
- Network presence of the church building
- Scotland's Churches Trust information
- Entry on St Margaret's Episcopal Church in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 57 ° 0 '20.7 " N , 3 ° 23' 50.1" W.