Description
Rebuilt 1903, A E Purdie of Canterbury and Archibald
MacPherson. Church and presbytery form 2 sides of a square
containing a rose garden. Curvilinear gothic cruciform
church, eastern frontal gable, lean-to marthex with low
ogee arched doorways on end elevations, and central, semi
octagonal baptistry, with hexagonal centre window; gable
above, integrated with lateral corner buttresses with
diagonal pinnacles, pair of 2-light traceried windows with
canopied niche between and rose window above. Nave has 3
2-light traceried windows before crossing. South transept
or chapel has larger 2-light traceried window facing east,
under gablet.
Presbytery extends from transept roof single storey with
attics, parallel ridge to rear, extending 1 bay further
south. Splayed porch with low ogee arched doorway in
re-entrant angle, 2 single and 1 double light casement
windows on ground floor. 2 square piended dormers. South
gable has 2 windows ground and 1st floor. Slate ridge roofs
and snecked rubble. Nave with open scissor roof on wall
brackets, aisleless for first 3 bays then breaking through
tall arcade into 2 bay aisles forming Lady Chapel on N
and Chapel of Sacred Heart on S. Square sanctuary with
timber wagon roof bracketed out on canted frieze. Stained
glass designed by Nina Davidson.