St Augustine's Episcopal Church, High Street, Dumbarton, Dumbarton, West Dunbartonshire

Entry Name: St Augustine's Episcopal Church, High Street, Dumbarton

Listing Name: High Street St Augustine's Episcopal Church

Listing Date: 8 September 1980

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 361002

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24890

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Dumbarton, High Street, St Augustine's Episcopal Church

ID on this website: 200361002

Location: Dumbarton

County: West Dunbartonshire

Town: Dumbarton

Electoral Ward: Dumbarton

Traditional County: Dunbartonshire

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

Description

Robert Rowand Anderson of Edinburgh, architect. Dated 1873 on

parsonage. 8-bay, aisled, Gothic church. Principal gabled elevation to High

Street: polished ashlar (remainder stugged with polished

dressings): central recessed door with splayed reveals, under

moulded pointed arch, large hood-moulded and

geometrical-traceried window above, with circular panels in

spandrels and hood-moulded vesica in gable-head; angle

buttresses, saw-tooth skews and cross finial. Low square

extension to left with plate-traceried window, similar window

and door in re-entrant angle; geometrical-traceried and

hoodmoulded aisle window to right. Clerestory windows have

pointed heads, paired over nave. Interior: (planned

decoration gradually completed) chancel, nave and north aisle

arcaded, aisle with circular and octagonal columns; chancel

arch on clustered columns. Delicate, elaborately carved,

cusped and traceried chancel screen with central gable; altar

rails have carved angels on gate posts. Altar and reredos

dedicated 1893; war memorial by R M MacNaught of Denny &

Blain, circa 1923. Some leaded glass windows; in eastern

aisle, window by W Gibbs (in poor repair) at northern end,

window by Stephen Adam, 1897 in western aisle at south end.

Timbered roof.

Statement of Interest

Listed category A for quality of interior.

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Former parsonage and hall by A C Denny, architect (Dumbarton), 1907, demolished in 1993.

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