Description

George Mathewson, 1839-40, tower heightened by Charles and

Leslie Ower, 1877. Rectangular plan church and tower, with neo-Romanesque detailing. Squared, coursed rubble with

polished ashlar dressings.

E ELEVATION: E gable with 110 foot 3-stage tower slightly

projecting at centre. 2 tall round-headed windows with

arched Y-tracery lighting gallery stairs flank central

doorway dated 1840 at base of tower. Tower has clasping

pilaster buttresses, round arched entrance with nook shaft,

3-light stepped round-headed window over, blind lancets on

return elevations; 2nd stage with louvred belfry window

arched head set into 5-arch blind arcade; top stage shafted

2-light window with inset clock face, chevron decoration to

hood moulds; shafted angles to pilaster, circular pinnacles

clasping arcaded parapet.

S ELEVATION: 4 tall round-arched windows with arched

Y-tracery. W gable 2 similarly detailed windows flank 3-light

sanctuary window. School converted to hall at right angles to

N elevation with simple round-arched porch, 2 round-headed

windows, oculus and stack in N gable, louvred fleche.

Slate roofs, skylights now slated over.

INTERIOR: 5 bays and projecting organ chamber, U-plan gallery

on tall clustered cast-iron columns. Upper columns support

4-centred arched roof trusses of plastered timber with arched

decoration in the spandrels. Original clerestorey level

openings formerly lit from skylights. Good stained glass

window inserted 1877. Cusped panelled gallery behind pulpit

and fronting organ chamber with other alterations by Charles

and Leslie Ower, 1877.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Tower a major

landmark to mariners. Some external detail lost during

plastic repairs.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807141

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy