Service was held for the first time in the new Church on Whitsunday. Holy Communion at 8.15am and Matins at 11.30am.

The Church has been built to the designs of Mr Comper, and is redolent of the spirit of that genius among architects. It stands by the roadside in a clump of trees. In design it is cruciform, narrow, lofty, dignified and beautifully proportioned.

Its austere simplicity and artistic self-restraint are characteristic of the genius of the architect. The outside is harled, the interior with its vaulted roof, is whitewashed throughout. The seats are of plain dark stained wood. The severity of its beauty is relieved by a baldachin of crimson and gold, with altar frontal of crimson silk. A tablet in memory of the founder, John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus, has been placed on the wall just inside the west door. The windows are without stained glass and one looks through the clear white tracery on to a background of green foliage and clear blue sky. The effect of the whole is thoroughly devotional. The Church was built with money raised by the late John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus, and replaces the old tin building in which “the Laird” himself used so zealously to conduct the services.

The following short notice was given by a locum tenens at the Holy Communion on Whitsunday: “At the first service held in the new Church of St John the Baptist, it is right that a word should be said of him who was the founder of it. John Peter Grant of Rothiemurchus was a typical Highland gentleman and a typical Scottish Episcopalian. Among all his many interests the Church came first. It was a joy to hear him take the services in the little tin building which this fine Church has now replaced. To see this Church in being was his heart’s desire. Let us hope that, in the wider life to which he has been called, he rejoices today over the work that is now complete. Requiescat in pace.”