Description
Robert Rowand Anderson of Edinburgh, architect. Dated 1873 on
parsonage. 8-bay, aisled, Gothic church. Principal gabled elevation to High
Street: polished ashlar (remainder stugged with polished
dressings): central recessed door with splayed reveals, under
moulded pointed arch, large hood-moulded and
geometrical-traceried window above, with circular panels in
spandrels and hood-moulded vesica in gable-head; angle
buttresses, saw-tooth skews and cross finial. Low square
extension to left with plate-traceried window, similar window
and door in re-entrant angle; geometrical-traceried and
hoodmoulded aisle window to right. Clerestory windows have
pointed heads, paired over nave. Interior: (planned
decoration gradually completed) chancel, nave and north aisle
arcaded, aisle with circular and octagonal columns; chancel
arch on clustered columns. Delicate, elaborately carved,
cusped and traceried chancel screen with central gable; altar
rails have carved angels on gate posts. Altar and reredos
dedicated 1893; war memorial by R M MacNaught of Denny &
Blain, circa 1923. Some leaded glass windows; in eastern
aisle, window by W Gibbs (in poor repair) at northern end,
window by Stephen Adam, 1897 in western aisle at south end.
Timbered roof.