Banchory East Parish Church,

East Parish Church was built in 1824/25 to replace the church in the old Burial Ground opposite. The architect was John Smith who used a Georgian Gothic style. It is built alongside Station Road, east of the town centre and there is a large churchyard to the immediate south of the church, across the road and down a steep embankment, close to the River Dee. The burial ground has a large number of burials and is still the main burial ground in use in Banchory today. There is an old watch tower, recently restored, and a mausoleum. There are no burials around the grounds of the church itself, which is used for car parking.

A church was built on the site in 1664, but became too small for the growing community and was replaced. The bell from this church now hangs in the former watch house in the burial ground. A replacement church opened in 1775, but again became too small. The current church, built in 1824/25, re-used much of the stonework from the 18th century building. A chancel was added in 1929/30 and for that the architect was George Bennett.

The Gothic style church was built with coursed granite blocks and has a slate roof. The south, principle, elevation consists of an attached square belltower and pinnacled gable. The tower is in three stages, each divided by a stringcourse. The lower stage has a pointed-arch doorway in the three faces, each with wooden doors. Above, on the south face, is a pointed-arch window with simple tracery, resting on a sill course. The east and west faces have narrow slit windows above the doors. The middle stage of the tower has pointed-arch, louvered belfry openings on each face. The top stage has a black and gold metal clockface on the south face. Above is a battlemented and pinnacled parapet. To either side of the tower, in the gable, is a large pointed-arch window with clear glass and simple tracery. The corners have narrow buttresses at an angle, which are topped by tall stone pinnacles.

The side elevations of the church are divided into five stages, separated by stepped buttresses. Each stage has a large pointed-arch window, apart from the southern most windows in each elevation, which are blocked (presumably due to a south gallery inside the church).

To the rear of the church the north gable has pinnacled corner buttresses, and a large chancel or apse was built in 1930. It is semi-octagonal and has pointed-arch windows that match those in the rest of the church.

The interior space is arranged around the chancel at the north end of the church, with a south gallery, accessed by a stairwell in the tower. The nave has plain wooden pews, with two aisles leading to the chancel. The pulpit is positioned at the junction of the nave and chancel, on the west side. The chancel area, contained within the apse at the north end of the church, is raised from the nave and contains a finely-carved wooden communion table. There is an organ along the east wall of the apse with painted and stencilled pipes.

A pipe organ by Wadsworth was added to the apse in the east wall in 1932. There is a stained glass window by William Wilson (1971) in the north wall and it depicts Ss Andrew and Thomas.