Description

Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority

Circa 1885. Rectangular-plan church with nave, chancel, porch, vestry and gabletted belfry in plain gothic style. Squared and snecked rubble sandstone with contrasting polished red sandstone dressings. Battered base; cusped windows; overhanging eaves; bargeboards.

N (Entrance) Elevation: gabled porch to outer right; roll-moulded doorway; boarded timber door with decorative wrought-iron hinges and fittings; blind slit opening set in gablehead above; iron cruciform finial. 4-light and 2-light windows to nave. Lower recessed chancel to outer left with 2-light window.

S Elevation: advanced gabled vestry with single window and blind slit set in gablehead. 4-light and 2-light windows.

E Elevation: 5-light window set in pointed-arched panel.

W Elevation: 3-light window; trefoil window set in gablehead. Clear leaded glass with coloured glass margins. Graded grey slate roof; decorative terracotta ridge tiles; gabletted belfry with cruciform finial; bell cast 1890 by J Murphy Dublin; cast-iron rainwater goods.

Interior: boarded dado; open timber roof; pointed chancel arch; open timber beam roof; decorative iron suspended light fitting; timber pews with additional hinged seats attached; altar with painted and gilded reredos depicting Saints Ninian, Columba, Blane and Angus; stained glass E window to memory of Rear Admiral Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor (died 1879).

Statement of Interest

The feu charter records that the church had been constructed on land belonging to the Edinchip Estate by 1888, when it was feued in favour of the Bishop of Dunkeld. Lady Helen Laura MacGregor of MacGregor, David Carnegie of Stronvar, and Col John Stewart of Ardvorlich were the principal benefactors. The church is distinguished by its unusual top-heavy belfry.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17834344

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings