Description

1851. Hall church with gabled Gothick facade. Cream sandstone, coursed and stugged to front, with polished ashlar dressings. Lancet windows with chamfered arrises and hoodmoulds; crenellated parapets.

SW (CURRIE STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay. Engaged porch at centre with crenellated octagonal corner towers and parapet; chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould and corresponding glazing to fanlight; 2-leaf panelled doors. 3-light Tudor-arched window above with intersecting tracery and hoodmould (boarded up); blind quatrefoil in gablehead inscribed BUILT 1765 REBUILT 1851. Flanking windows. Octagonal corner towers with octagonal ashlar pinnacles, each facet gableted; chevroned crenellations to skews; corbelled birdcage bellcote at apex with pointed-arch opening to each face, parapet and pinnacle as above.

SE ELEVATION: 3 windows; plain boarded door at ground to left. Timber mullions and simple tracery.

NW ELEVATION: 3 windows without hoodmoulds. Boarded up, but timber tracery remains.

NE (REAR) ELEVATION: pair of windows. Timber astragals to lancets; stained glass to rear. Grey slates; later rendered apex stack to rear. Ashlar coped skews; corbel skewputts.

INTERIOR: now used as carpet warehouse. Flat ceiling with plaster rose at centre; U-plan stepped gallery. Memorials in narthex.

BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low dressed sandstone wall to front with saddleback ashlar coping; pair of low capped octagonal ashlar gatepiers at centre.

HALL: single storey 4-bay hall, now converted to house, to E at right angles to church. Dressed cream sandstone. Bipartite windows to each bay, chamfered arrises. Corniced door in flat-roofed link to church to left. Modern plate glass windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Former UP Church, the congregation now united with the Parish Church.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q56630689

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)