Description
James Chalmers, architect, 1904. Cruciform Neo Norman church
with nave, aisles and transepts, small apsidal single-storey
baptistry to W. Stugged red ashlar with polished margins
and quoins. Round arched lancets or simple plate tracery
windows.
W gable buttressed with small apsidal baptistry to ground
roofed with stone flags; above rise 3 tall lancets. Buttressed
5-bay aisles, round-arched single light windows; clerestory
windows with plate tracery. Projecting gabled porch with
round-arched entrance to S aisle with nook shafts supporting
bands fo chevron moulding. Hoodmould with label stops.
Diminutive similarly detailed niche above.
To S transept, round-arched portal with columnar reveals
supporting roll-moulding.
To E end, semi-circular stained glass window with central
rose lights and spandrel lights. Continuous roll-moulding
at cills. Plain skews and skewstones, slate roofs.
INTERIOR: 5-bay aisles separated from nave by round arched
arcade supported on squat columns will scalloped pseudo-
capitals. Corbels at spandrel level support engaged shafts
with square capitals supporting ribs to barrel-vaulted
timber-lined roof.
Clustered columns to crossing with groin vault. All S aisle
and one N aisle window of stained glass by various artists:
W H Cann; J and M Cran; Gordon Webster. Other windows with
opaque leaded glass panes. Carved oak reredos by Robert
Lorimer, 1920; marble altar supported on coloured marble
colonnettes. Ashlar pulpit with carved figures of the
Evangelists in trefoil-headed niches supported on coloured
marble colonnettes. Octagonal polychrome marble font in
baptistry. S transept with small Lady Chapel with carved
oak reredos, 1930. Organ in N transept; carved timber lecturn.