St Mary on the Rock Episcopal Church
The St Mary on the Rock Episcopal Church is an Episcopal church building of the Scottish Episcopal Church in the Scottish village of Ellon in the Council Area Aberdeenshire . In 1971 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The history of the parish goes back over 900 years. At the time of the persecution of the followers of the Episcopal Church in the course of the Jacobite uprisings , masses were held in various secret hiding places. In 1816 a small episcopal church was opened in Ellon. Construction of today's St Mary on the Rock Episcopal Church began in 1870. On June 23 of the following year it opened and finally on September 8, 1875 consecrated .
The English architect George Edmund Street is responsible for the design . Street was entrusted with the revision of the library of the nearby Dunecht House in 1867 . Street oversaw the work on the church from 1870 until it was completed the following year. Together with the parallel construction of the church of St John's Episcopal Church , it should remain one of the few works on Street in Scotland.
description
St Mary on the Rock Episcopal Church is south of Ellon near the right bank of the Ythan . Its exterior is based on the medieval parish church of Ellons, which was demolished in 1776.
The masonry of the 31 m long, neo-Gothic church building consists of dark granite with contrasting light natural stone surrounds. On the western side of the entrance is a narthex with a hipped roof . A tracery with a pressed pointed arch made of five lancet windows is embedded in the gable surface above . Tracery made of lancet windows are embedded along the side facades of the single-aisled hall church . To the nave , the closing chorus with beveled apse at. The organ room emerges on the south side and the sacristy on the north side . A slender bell tower rises at the transition between the nave and the choir. It tapers elegantly from a square floor plan to an octagonal and finally to a seated drum with a conical roof .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ a b Information from the parish
- ↑ Entry on St John's Church in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
Web links
- Network presence of the parish
- Information from the Scottish Episcopal Church
- Information on scottishchurches.org.uk
- Entry to St Mary on the Rock Episcopal Church in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 57 ° 21 ′ 42.2 " N , 2 ° 4 ′ 17.9" W.