The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Buckie, Moray
All Saints (Episcopal) on Cluny Square. NJ 4248 6555. © Alex Parker. A 2022 Streetview provides another view. Link. Category B listed, wherein it's dated to 1876. For related listed features, see here. Buckie Baptist Church (2021 Streetview) on Cluny Place is presumably the successor to the earlier Baptist on West Church Street (now Church of Christ - see below). It's dated here to 1910. NJ 4241 6561. Link. Buckie North Church (CoS) on Cluny Square. NJ 4259 6561. © Alex Parker. Another view from Streetview in 2023. Link. Category B listed, which dates it to 1878-9 on the site of a predecessor of 1834. Church of Christ (2008 Streetview) on West Church Street. This is a former Baptist Church, shown as such on a map of 1900. NJ 4225 6543. Another Church of Christ stands on Cluny Place and Seaview Place at NJ 4241 6564. Seen by Streetview in 2021, this source dates it to the 1950's following a schism which split the local church. There used to be an Episcopal Chapel on Low Street at NJ 4260 6575. Shown on a map of 1866, it was the immediate predecessor of All Saints, and has long gone. The "history" tab of All Saints church website says The accommodation in Low Street left a lot to be desired being described by The Elgin Courant of 1st June 1875 as ”worn out thirty years ago, and was more like a carpenter’s shop than a place of worship". It also says that it had previously been a Wesleyan Mission Hut. The housing on its site was seen by Streetview in 2022. A Gospel Hall (2008 Streetview) stands on Blairdaff Street. NJ 4239 6542. The Gospel Hall on West Church Street, as seen by Streetview in 2022. NJ 4217 6539. Link. The Methodist Church stands on a plot between Railway Terrace, Titness Street and North Pringle Street. Originally Wesleyan, according to this source it dates from 1907, and was seen by Streetview in 2022, here and here. NJ 4221 6549. Link. Riverside Christian Church on Cluny Square and Shanks Lane (2023 Streetview). NJ 4268 6563. Facebook. The Catholic church in Buckie is St. Peter (2023 Streetview) on St. Andrew's Square is apparently often referred to as The Buckie Cathedral. NJ 4189 6527. Link1. Link2. Category A listed, wherein it's dated to 1850-7, with additions in 1907. The adjacent presbytery is also listed as category A. A map of 1930, surveyed two years earlier, marks S.A. Hall at the northern end of Baron Street. NJ 4231 6583. Its site was seen by Streetview in 2008. The army has a presence in the town today on a site between Mid Street and New Street, at NJ 4215 6567. Streetview provides views from New Street in 2008, and from Mid Street in 2022. Link. Seamen's Memorial Chapel (2008 Streetview) stands at the east end of New Street at NJ 4220 6570. Link. South and West Church of Scotland (2023 Streetview) on High Street and East Cathcart Street is labelled as a Free Church on a map of 1866. It was later United Free. NJ 4264 6544. Link. Their Facebook page mentions a recent union with Enzie Church in Portgordon (for which see the Moray page). Category C listed wherein it's dated to 1849-50. The former West Church of Scotland (2022 Streetview) on West Church Street is dated 1870, and is now flats. It's labelled on a map of 1905 as United Free, and is probably the U.P. church attested to in 1886. NJ 4244 6554.
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21 August 2024
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