Description
G T Ewing, 1882. First/Second Pointed gothic church with tall attached NW bell tower; 7-bay aisled nave with dividing buttresses and apsidal chapel to E. Squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. 3-stage sawtooth-coped battered buttresses, pinnacled buttresses and full-height angle buttresses to bell tower. Chamfered plinth; moulded string courses and eaves course. Plate traceried and dial traceried windows; continuous hoodmould; voussoirs, chamfered reveals and stone mullions. Timber doors with decorative ironwork brackets.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical tall-gabled elevation with continuous hoodmould across 1st stage. Deeply-moulded doorcase to centre with narrow lights in flanking bays, tall 2nd stage with hoodmoulded full-height triple lancet window and flanking pinnacled buttresses, moulded glazed oculus in cross-finialled gablehead. Slightly set-back low flanking aisles, each with bipartite window. Bell tower (see below) to outer left.
BELL TOWER: 5-stage gabled bell tower nearly free standing with unusual upper stages. Tall 1st stage with string courses and traceried window to SW giving way to 2nd stage with 2 narrow lights to each face and set-back 3rd stage with 3 similar narrow lights set into large tripartite frame; further set-back tall 4th (belfry) stage with bipartite opening and surmounting small blind 5-part arcade to each face; cornice and angle water spouts giving way to gabled top stage with blind rose window below tiny gunloop to each face and diminutive lead spire with cockerel weathervane.
SE ELEVATION: single stage nave aisle in 4 bays to left with deep-set door to outer left and 3 raised-centre trefoil-headed tripartite windows to right, taller M-gable beyond with 2 large traceried windows; recessed face of clerestory above with 6 small dial windows and tall traceried window to outer right (bay 7). Lower bay to outer right (extending beyond main church) with trefoil-headed tripartite window. Diminutive triangular ventilators to roof pitch.
NE (CHANCEL) ELEVATION: canted elevation with traceried window high up to each face and cross-finialled polygonal roof over. Low flanking bays, that to left with boarded timber door and plate glass fanlight linking church with projecting apsidal bay with trefoil-headed tripartite window; set-back bay to right with similar door and adjacent narrow light to left and small bipartite to right.
NW ELEVATION: mirrors SE elevation but with low piended bay to outer left and bell tower projecting at right.
Leaded multi-pane glazing; stained glass see below. Small grey slates with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Ashlar-coped skews with mitre and flat skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings.
INTERIOR: small gallery to SW. Boarded timber vaulted ceiling to narthex with dog-leg stone staircase and memorial tablets including War Memorials. Wide nave with pointed-arch arcaded side aisles, circular columns and uncut capitals, clerestory windows set deeply into pointed-arch openings with raked cills and continuous hoodmould; kingpost barrel roof. Boarded timber dadoes and fixed timber pews. Chancel with arcaded Communion Table, decorative panelling and full-width organ; carved white stone pulpit and font, each on granite base with coloured marble columns.
STAINED GLASS: much fine stained glass including St Michael Window to SW; memorial window by M Kemp, 1950, dedicated to the 'Parents' of 'Duncan Kay and Catherine Mason Sinclair', the infant Jesus with Mary and Joseph flanked by scenes from the nativity; and memorial to 'A REVERED PARENT JOHN DEWAR AN ELDER OF THIS CHURCH' (died 1889) depicting elaborately winged angels flanking haloed figure with scythe. 2 tripartite windows to Session House, 1 with Mary and infant Jesus to centre light flanked by praying children, other with children and animals.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND LAMPS: stepped ashlar-coped squared rubble boundary walls; square section ashlar gatepiers with trefoil-detailed gablet caps and 2-leaf decorative ironwork gates. Pair of decorative cast-iron lamps with small-pane glazed lanterns.