Description
A Maitland and Sons, Tain 1880/82. Early French Gothic.
Designed to give appearance of nave and aisles; tall 3-stage
tower and spire.
West front: buttressed, gabled entrance, pair of recessed
doors with nook shafts and trumeau, cusped heads under
pointed arch; 2 geometric traceried windows above, central
rose window in gable. Tower with stepped angle buttresses
terminating as octagonal pinnacles; lancet windows,
decorative clock stage, tall louvred lancets to belfry,
facetted spire with 4 lucarnes. 6 bay buttressed nave with
gallery stair projection at S.W., and gabled eastern bay.
All stugged and coursed rubble with polished ashlar
dressings; decorative corbel course; slate roof. Interior:
original pine fittings; raised pulpit to east against
panelled organ case, with flanking balusters. Gallery 3 sides
of interior wit Gothic panelling, supported by brackets,
carried on cast-iron columns with stiff leaf capitals.
Fretted and billet moulded cornice; thin king post roof.
Parish Hall: rectangular, 4 bay, linked to church by broad
passage. Triple lancets to north and south gables. Small
outshot porch to east. Stugged and coursed rubble with ashlar
dressings as Church.