Basic Site Details Name: | Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Church and presbytery | Town, district or village: | Banff | City or county: | Banffshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Monogram on churches indicates architects. Presbytery is C Listed
Banff.—The foundation stone of a new (Roman) Catholic chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has been laid. The chapel consists of nave, ante-space and sanctuary, the latter terminating in an apse. The internal length of the chapel is 68ft. The nave is 23ft. wide, ante-space 19ft. wide, and the sanctuary 15ft. wide, and the internal height is about 25ft. The nave will contain sittings for 231 persons, and a small gallery in the S.W. end 30 sittings for choir and space for organ. At the south-wost corner of the chapel there is a campanile or bell turret of masonry, surmounted with ornamental finial cross, in all 64 feet high. The style is First Pointed. The whole cost of the building will be about £1250. Elgin stone is used for all the dressings, and the fronts are filled in with small courses of black stone of the locality. Mr Alexander Ellis, of Aberdeen, of the firm of Ellis and Wilson, is the architect.[Building News 24 June 1870 pp480-481] | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Church | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Our Lady of Mount Carmel RC Church and presbytery, Sandyhill Road | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1870 | | | | | Before 1923 | | Addition | Additions and war memorial - not necessarily the same date |
PeopleDesign and Construction
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Cramond, William | 1893 | Annals of Banff | | | Volume Ii, p163 | | Leith, Connie | 1999 | Alexander Ellis: a fine Victorian architect | | Aberdeen: privately published | pp48-51 | | Walker, David W and Woodworth, Matthew | 2015 | The Buildings of Scotland: Aberdeenshire North and Moray | | Yale University Press | pp26, 78 | | Who's Who in Architecture | 1923 | | | | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Aberdeen Daily Free Press | 4 May 1917 | | | Obituary | | Aberdeen Press and Journal Weekend Review | 4 May 1917 | | | Obituary | | Building News | 24 June 1870 | | | pp480-481 - foundation stone |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 22090 | Church | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 22191 | Presbytery |
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