Description

Plain 1869. 1st pointed Gothic church with 1868 manse to W
connected by narrow link. All built of channelled bull-faced
red ashlar with polished dressings and hoodmoulds; slate
roofs.
CHURCH: T-plan, with twin-gabled E and W transepts, plain
square tower with broach spire in SW re-entrant angle with
gabled porch at foot, main roof swept over porch in
corresponding SE re-entrant angle. Tower has gabled louvred
belfry openings to all elevations, breaking eaves; S-facing
doors; 3 tall lancets in each main gable - those to S with
hoodmould stepped to link with eaves - quatrefoil and cross
finial. Saw-toothed skews.
INTERIOR: 3 S windows by Wm Meikle and Sons, Glasgow and
single W transept window all World War I memorial windows.
Pulpit (on N gable) has simple gothic detailing and pointed
backboard; exposed main roof timbers on stone corbels.
MANSE: 2 storeys, asymmetrical, with gothic details.
S ELEVATION: 3 bays, the left with single windows and lean-to
porch (hood-moulded pointed doorway) front wall of latter on
same plane as advanced remaining bays; gabled central bay
with plate-traceried tall stair window, bipartites in piended
right bay; saw-toothed skews, coped end stacks. Link with
church has S-facing door.
Rubble-built boundary wall to S with cusped cast-iron
railings linking square gatepiers with gabletted caps.

Statement of Interest

Church an ecclesiastical building in use as such.

1790 datestone of previous church incorporated at S end of

church W wall.

Published sources such as MacKelviee's ANNALS...OF THE UP

CHURCH, 1873, only gives details of previous church.

Change of Category B to C(S) 4.10.88.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56622563

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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