Description

1867. Simple gothic church with spire and 2-storey presbytery
adjoined. Whinstone rubble with red sandstone ashlar bands
and dressings, base course; hoodmoulds.
SPIRE AND ENTRANCE PORCH: adjoined to outer right bay of S
elevation. Square base to spire with small lancet windows
lighting stair, chamfered to octagonal form above eaves with
louvred round-arched openings to each face of bell-chamber,
bracketed eaves to polygonal ashlar spire; decorative
cast-iron finial. Gabled porch set in re-entrant angle with
pointed arch door, flanked by nookshafts with simple
capitals; 2-leaf boarded door; stone cross finial.
NAVE: buttresses dividing 5 bays to S elevation. Lancet in
outer left bay, paired lancets in pointed arch panels to 3
centre bays with quatrefoil carving at apex. N elevation
largely blank with set-off chimney breast to outer left with
cigar-stack at wallhead; lancet to outer right. E elevation
with large pointed arch panel comprised of plate traceried
rose window and 2 traceried windows; 2 arrowslit windows
below. Decorative stone cross finial at apex.
APSE: formed of canted W end elevation, with lancet to outer
bay to S and slender metal cross finial.
Lead diamond-pane glazing pattern. Graduated grey slates.
Decorative ridge ornament.
INTERIOR: not seen 1990.
PRESBYTERY: simple 2-storey presbytery adjoined to W end of
church. Materials as above. Bipartite windows at 1st floor
with column mullions and moulded lintels.
S ELEVATION: 3-bay; gabled porch set in re-entrant angle at
centre formed with advanced outer right bay; pointed arch
arch door in roll-moulded surround; plate glass fanlight;
arrowslit on W return. Small 1st floor window above. Lower
bays advanced to right comprised of 2 windows at ground with
moulded lintels and bipartite in gabled dormerhead breaking
eaves above; eaves swept into main roof. Gabled bay to outer
left with bipartite windows to each floor, and arrowslit at
gablehead; decorative wrought iron finial. 4-pane glazing
pattern in sash and case windows. Graduated grey slates.
Ashlar coped skews. Set-off wallhead stack to blank W
elevation.
RETAINING WALLS: saddleback ashlar coping to whinstone rubble
walls, stepped at intervals.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56628595

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)