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Summary

Description

Henry Steele and Andrew Balfour architects 1891-3.

Cruciform-plan 1st pointed Gothic church with hall to east

and tall 3-stage square tower with spire at north west

corner. Red snecked and stugged ashlar and polished

dressings. Tower with tall set-back buttresses to 1st and

2nd stage; pointed-headed hood-moulded door in north

elevation. Tall 2nd stage, with set-off, lancets high on

each face flanking gableted central pilaster strips. 3rd

stage has engaged, banded octagonal angle piers with

capping pinnacles, tall pointed-headed louvered belfry

openings, and clock on each face at base of spire below

gable. Faceted spire. Main entrance in west gable, with

pinnacled angle buttresses. Central gabled doorway with

nook shafts, under moulded, pointed arch and hood-mould;

flanking buttresses. Tall, triple, plate-traceried lights

above, with shafted jambs and moulded arches. Vescica in

gable head. 5 bay buttressed nave and aisles; paired

lancets with shafted jambs and hoodmoulds to aisle plate

-traceried clerestory windows.

Squat 2-stage octagonal tower with faceted roof at east

end of aisles, each with pointed-headed door. Large,

hoodmoulded pointed-headed transept windows with geometric

tracery above blind arcade, flanked by gableted and

pinnacled angle buttresses. Small central decorative fleche.

5-bay hall to east, orientated north south, with 5 paired

lancets to clerestory at east and aisle. Gabled porch in

north gable below triple lancets approached from west by

steps with pierced balustrade and square low terminal

piers. Small fleche. Slate roofs throughout.

Interior: nave, clustered columned aisle arcade. West and

transept galleries have panelled balcony fronts. Organ by

Willis of London. South transept window by Stephen Adam

(1892); north transept by Winfields (1891) and west window

by Cottier and Son, London (1891). Some later aisle windows

by Gordon Webster.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use.

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