Description

1896-1900. Sir J J Burnet. Free gothic, mixed Romanesque
and late Gothic motifs with much sculpture. Low intimate
proportions, snecked rubble with red sandstone dressings,
church and hall unit at right angles on corner site. Church
lies E and W, S E tower bay with gallery flanked at NE bay
by apsidal stair turret, 3 bays of nave, one-bay sanctuary.
N aisle of almost the same height, hall range runs N from
tower fronting St Ninian's Square with cloister on W side
to grassed court in angle of church. Tower: bold squat
proportions with splayed angles, 3 stages, E face has lower
2 vertically integrated within neo-Norman arch, gothic
sculptures spandrel panel, belfry stage 2 pairs of 2-light
openings with 2 orders of shafts, sculptured capitals, deep
corbelled parapet with angle rounds slated pyramid roof,
circular turret corbelled to octagonal at NW angle.
Flanking gallery stair projection, canted front with shafted
angles and single lancets, deep plain parapet. Flank
of church to Damacre Road pinnacled buttress at tower and
4 bays of paired lancets under broad-eaved bracketted roof.
Hall range incorporates vestibule of church opening off
transe serving both church and hall, E frontage to St Ninians
Square (left to right) rich arched doorway of 2 orders,
inner sculptured, outer cusped, niched jambs, stepped
parapet over with rich late Gothic niche, art-nouveau
wrot-iron gates; 3 square-headed 3-light windows; doorway
raised in parapet; and buttressed gable-front of N hall
with 3 stepped lancets, tall roof within deep plain
parapet. W courtyard side has open cloister feature with
roof cantilevered radial struts from corbels on W
wall of hall, N hall has gable front with oriel and
half-timbered gable. Notable interior, low round-arched
arcade springing from short cylindrical piers, open
timber collar-braced roofs with bold rood beam feature
at sanctuary.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

B group with items 124,127,128,154-158, 160-166 all inc.

Previously known as Southesk Church, the church became the Gardner Memorial Church in 1997. Statutory address updated 2009.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17574360

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