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Summary

Description

1838. Aisleless rectangular plan church with Tudor gothic details, corbelled gablehead belfry and corner pinnacles to SE. Squared and snecked rubble stone, ashlar dressings, base course, quoins, square leaded openings, battered cills, hoodmoulds. Deeply chamfered arrises. Harled NE elevation.

SE ELEVATION: central entrance door, rectangular fanlight, 4-light lancets set in rectangular window above, tall windows flanking, gothic treatment of belfry and corner pinnacles.

NE ELEVATION: 4-bay nave with 3 tall windows, doorway to left with simplified shield panel above.

SW ELEVATION: symmetrical with NE, doorway to right.

NW ELEVATION: 2 tall windows, shield panel to centre in gable. Later hall extension built against and obscuring lower part of elevation.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

Multi-pane glazing to SE elevation, later 6-pane glazing to nave, stained glass to NW. Grey slate, deep coped skews, squared ashlar skewputts, 2 polygonal ashlar stacks behind gablehead to NW.

OUTBUILDINGS: single storey church hall built against NW end and extending to W, not included in listing.

FORMER SCHOOLHOUSE: Single storey, 5-bay, rectangular plan, squared and snecked rubble stone, square headed windows, hoodmoulds, plain margins.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: bays grouped 1-1-3, entrance second bay from left in ashlar porch, pointed arch doorway, small gable with skews and ball finial.

SW ELEVATION: 5 bays of windows symmetrical with NE elevation, flat roof addition (see OUTBUILDINGS) obscuring 3 bays to right.

SE ELEVATION: 3-bay gable end, armorial panel to centre in gable.

NW ELEVATION: gable end obscured by low rubble built lean-to, 1 window to right surviving.

18-pane timber sash and case windows, recent machine tile roof, coped skews, skewputts, ashlar gablehead stack to NW, later brick stack to SE.

INTERIOR: not seen 1997.

OUTBUILDINGS: flat roof addition to SW not included in listing.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Church built as a chapel of ease 1836-8 for the Established Church at a cost of #2,000. Raised to "quoad sacra" status in 1874. A plaque inside the church is from the demolished No 26 Montgomery Street and bears the inscription "The birth place of James Montgomery, the Christian poet, born 4th Nov 1771, died 30th April 1854".

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