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mini-man-son
17-02-2012, 08:35 PM
Hi there.
first report on this site hope you like.

A memorial to hospital staff killed in the Great War (though a chapel was included as part of the original concept at Bangour), with a War Memorial side chapel on the south. Dated 1924, work continued until circa 1930. Required for Church of Scotland/ Episcopal/ RC forms of worship, it has nave, chancel, sanctuary, rood cross, altar, side aisles etc. Built of roughly-squared whinstone (obtained from a quarry in the hospital grounds) with contrasting light-coloured ashlar detailing, the latter being stonework taken from the demolition of Hamilton Palace and re-used here (stonework has been re-cut, original surfaces lost). Slate roofs. Style is a very stripped Romanesque, with possibly a Nordic influence; square tower has splay-footed leaded spire of Scots late 17th/early 18th century type (cf Rutherglen Old Kirk Tower; Polwarth; or Slezer`s views ot Thirlstane), though the source used here may be a medieval - again, possibly Nordic - one

coped from
http://www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/BAR/detail.aspx?sctID=3431&region=Aberdeenshire&div=&class=ALL&category=AT+RISK&Page=1&NumImg=5

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plan on going back this year and this place truly is amazing to see. very tight to get into but worth it.
mint as you can see inside with bibles still on seats.

thanks