Description
Church; David Smith, architect and builder, 1859. Gothic;
coursed dressed rubble, tooled ashlar dressings.
Orientated SE-NW with main entrance front to Sinclair Street,
and rear access from Princes Street. Rectangular church with
advanced tower in centre SE gabled front with pointed headed
recessed porch in base of tower, clasped buttresses
terminating in (truncated) pinnacles, octagonal belfry with
lucarned spire. Cusped Y-tracery windows in 1st and 2nd
stages of spire, louvred at 2nd stage; small pointed headed
louvred vents in each face of octagonal belfry.
Cusped Y-tracery windows flank entrance; similar windows
light 5-bay side elevations. Large hoodmoulded Perpendicular
window lights NW gable, fronted by low, single storey bowed
vestry with Tudor arched entrance at left (blind similar
entrance right); Easdale slate roof. Interior; simple
galleried interior; canted U-shape gallery supported by plain
cast-iron clustered columns, with panelled frontage; coffered
ceiling; grained wooden pews; Gothic detailing to pulpit
backboard.
Church Room: contemporary.
or near contemporary gabled Gothic church room at N angle,
with large Perpendicular gabled porch entrance from
Robertsons Lane. Polygonal end stack; slate roof. Low
coped retaining wall with cast-iron spearhead railings and
matching pair gates to Sinclair Street. Square tooled rubble
pair gate piers with shallow pyramidal caps; similar end
piers; dry stone wall to Princes Street.