Description

Frederick T Pilkington (Pilkington and Bell) 1868-9, extended
1879 by Ireland and MacLaren. Muscular well-detailed and
massed gothic church with steeple and basement hall. Two-tone
ashlar with coloured bands and details.
TOWER and spire at NE corner: shoulder arched door in
pointed porch to E, advanced gablet to N with 2-light window
and hexafoil rose. Square tower with clasping buttresses
chamfered at 3 stages. Paired louvred lancets at belfry
stage, linked at base of 2nd stage and at impost level by
dog-tooth bands. Octagonal spire with decorated bands and
finials.
Impressively wide N ELEVATION: elaborate centre piece with
paired pointed-arched doorways under taller arches
depressed 1 arched with hexafoil and carving in tympana,
carved foliated band course all within wide arched porch.
Large pointed arches recess over, with twin 2-light windows,
quatrefoils and hexafoil in elaborately carved tympana. Cross
finial. Similar but simpler windows to gablets flanking door.
Stepped blind arcading over. 2-light window to right bay,
tall gabletted lancet over, breaks eaves of steep pavilion
roof. Wrought-iron finial.
W ELEVATION: left to right: steep pyramidal roof over twin
lancets, 3 advanced asymmetrical gabletted bays; 2-light with
quatrefoil at left; centre 4-light with large trefoiled
tympanum, 5-light bow at ground floor; right (added 1879)
smaller 4-light gable; slightly advanced at ground floor.
E elevation similar. Finials missing.
REAR ELEVATION Ireland and MacLaren, 1879: pyramidal-roofed
turrets with wrought-iron finials and cusped lancets in
re-entrant angles between side gables and chancel, chamfered
infill at ground floor. Large rose in S gable. Gable end
stack. Vestry 2-storey, 2 bays of shouldered arched windows
to S, blank chamfered wall to neighbouring property.
Session House/hall, single storey, canted E elevation with
cusped lancets and vesica.
Slate roofs. Small-pane leaded glazing, some stained glass.
Cathedral panes to vestry and hall.
INTERIOR U-plan gallery on stout masonry columns and timber
twisted barley-sugar columns. Slim cast-iron columns at
gallery level carry hammerbeam roofs of gables, timber with
wrought-iron ties. Ornate bowed timber pulpit and organ case
(minus pipes). Original pews and light fittings. Stained glass
windows, 4 in 1897 and 4 by Stephen Adam, Glasgow 1903.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The Lyon MacKenzie

window has been moved, with the congregation and some of

the furnishings, to Roseangle Ryehill Church, 130 Perth Road.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17575776

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