Description
William Burn, 1832. Gothic; wide rectangular church
orientated SE-NW, with entrance in SE in base of 3-stage
tower. All coursed, dressed rubble, tooled rubble dressings.
Pointed headed, hood-moulded porch in centre of tower, with
cusped Y-tracery windows in 3 faces of 2nd stage, and
louvred windows with intersecting tracery to belfry in all
4 faces of upper stage; clock in 3 faces below belfry
windows; polygonal clasping buttresses terminating in
pinnacles. Entrance flanked by single bay stair projection,
lit by Y-tracery window in front and side elevations. 5-bay
flanks with windows as frontage alternating with pinnacled
buttresses. Large perpendicular traceried window in centre
of broad NW gable with small flanking windows; lattice pane
glazing; NW apex stack; slate roof. Interior; shallow ribbed
and bossed vaulted ceiling; gallery with reeded panelled
frontage supported by cast-iron Roman Doric columns. Gothic
panelled pulpit; large organ at rear; pews probably from
1870-80.
Church room; later single storey, 5-bay church room fills site immediately NW of church; curved frontage with centre gable
and bipartites in bays 2, 3, and 4. Entrance in SW gable;
slate roof.
Enclosure railings; plain cast-iron spear head railings
mounted on low coped rubble retaining wall. Matching
paired gates to front flanked by octagonal capped tooled
ashlar gate piers; single pedestrian gates at sides.