Description

Peddie and Kinnear, architects, 1878-80. Symmetrical
buttressed T-plan apsidal church with tower to NW angle.
Coursed bull-faced granite with polished sandstone margins
and quoins.
3-bay nave, 2-bay gabled transepts, single bay chancel with
projecting semi-circular apse lit by 5 small lancets. All
openings pointed-arched with chamfered jambs and linked by
continuous hoodmould/string course. Main doorway to N flanked
by small paired lancets; triple lancet above transepts with
central porch on gable end flanked by lancets with cinquefoil
rose window above.
Tower in 3 stages with angle buttresses; lower 2 stages
plain, 3rd stage with paired louvered openings. Octagonal
broached spire rises to finial.
Interior: narthex with 2 doors to nave and gallery stair in
tower. Gallery to N with panelled front, supported on
cast-iron column. Organ to E transept; 1897 Forester and
Andrews. Apse to S with dado panelling and 5 stained glass
lights. Elaborately carved pulpit on raised dais. Roof ribs
supported on stone corbels.
Low ashlar wall with cast-iron railings; good sandstone
gatepiers with cast-iron lamp brackets.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792279

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)