St Margaret's Church, Aberlour

St Margaret's Episcopal Church
St Margaret's viewed from the north
57°28′21″N 3°12′56″W / 57.47250°N 3.21556°W / 57.47250; -3.21556
Location	Aberlour, Moray
Country	Scotland
Denomination	Scottish Episcopal Church
History
Founded	19th century
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Category A listed building[1]

St Margaret's Church is a church of the Scottish Episcopal Church near Aberlour in Moray, Scotland. It is Gothic in style, built mostly of tooled granite rubble, and has a cruciform layout with an east–west oriented nave, transepts to the north and south, and a slender tower at the south-west corner. Its interior is lavishly decorated with polished granite columns topped with ornately carved capitals, marble chancel furniture, and many stained glass windows depicting saints and biblical scenes.

St Margaret's was built between 1875 and 1879 by Alexander Ross and largely paid for by Margaret Macpherson Grant, an heiress who had inherited a large fortune from her uncle Alexander Grant, a slave-owning merchant and planter who had become rich in Jamaica. The church was built as the chapel for an orphanage that she founded in the town; the orphanage has since been demolished, but the church continues to be used for weekly services, and has been designated a Category A listed building.