Fraserburgh, Seaforth Street, South Parish Church

Also known as

Moses' Tablet; United Free Church

Classifications: Church(19th Century)

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Location Details

Local authority: Aberdeenshire

Parish: Fraserburgh

Former region: Grampian

Former district: Banff And Buchan

Former county: Aberdeenshire

Location accurate to the nearest 1 metre.

British National Grid (BNG) Coordinates: 399853, 866679

Ordnance Survey (OS) National Grid Reference: NJ 99853 66679

Latitude: 57.68995Longitude: -2.00413

Datum: OSGB36 - NGR

50 m
200 ft
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Further details

Site number: NJ96NE 50

National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 173562

Fraserburgh South Parish Church The Ten Commandments Stone

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19702096276

Fraserburgh South Parish Church The Ten Commandments Stone

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19702096275

Fraserburgh South Parish Church The Ten Commandments Stone

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19702096274

Fraserburgh South Parish Church The Ten Commandments Stone

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19702096273

Fraserburgh South Parish Church Ten Commandments Stone & Fra

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19692096268

Fraserburgh South Parish Church Ten Commandments Stone & Fra

Historic Scotland Photographic Library

19692096267

Oblique aerial view.

Historic Environment Scotland

20171586415

View from north east.

Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland

20121305955

View from north west.

Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland

20121305954

View from south west.

Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinburgh, Scotland

20121305953

General view of South Parish Church, Fraserburgh, by J B Pir

Catalogued material awaiting allocation to a collection

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1 Note

Category: Descriptive accounts

Event reference: 799948

NJ96NE 50 99853 66679

For 'Moses Tablet' (built into interior wall), see also NJ96NE 6.


1 Activity

Category: Descriptive accounts

Event reference: 1019743

Description: The soaring South United Free Church, built in 1878-80 to the designs of the Aberdonian maverick, J B Pirie. The finest of Fraserburgh’s Victoria churches, perhaps the most striking in north-east Scotland, it faces up Victoria Street from Seaforth Street.

Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Fraserburgh: Archaeology and Development’, (2010).

Related people and organisations

NameRoleOrganisation
Prof Charles McKeanAuthor
Tim NeighbourAuthor
A CathcartAuthor
P F MartinAuthor
Prof Richard D OramAuthor

References

Oram, Martin, McKean, Neighbour and Cathcart R D, P F, C A, T and A (2010) The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Fraserburgh: archaeology and development,. Edinburgh. broad sheet

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References

Oram, Martin, McKean, Neighbour and Cathcart R D, P F, C A, T and A. (2010) The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Fraserburgh: archaeology and development, Edinburgh. broad sheet RCAHMS Shelf Number: D.5.13.FRA