Glass
Glass is a parish primarily in Aberdeenshire but extending into Banffshire, five miles west of Huntly in the former county. The name, in the Gaelic language, signifying "grey," is descriptive of the uncultivated portion of its surface. The Aberdeenshire portion forms the northern part of the parish and extends to 7,923 acres. It contains the hamlets of Haugh of Glass and Torry. The A920 from Dufftown to Huntly passes through this part of the parish.
The Banffshire portion occupies the southern part of the parish and extends to 4,732 acres.
The River Deveron enters the parish from Cabrach and traverses it in a north-easterly direction before leaving on the eastern border and thereafter forming the boundary between the neighbouring parishes of Cairnie and Huntly.
Glass Parish Church was built in 1791 and is dedicated to St Andrew. It is a plain harled rectangle with bellcote, with a large T-plan addition and early 20th-century internal elaboration of a quality considerably above the average. There is a Lorimer font, characteristically good glass by Douglas Strachan and an organ presented by Sir Frederick Bridge of Cairnborrow Lodge who was organist at Westminster Abbey. The bells date from 1642.
