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Summary

Description

Dated 1905. 5 x 2 bay symmetrical hall church with gabled entrance porch to S. Harl pointed and lined rubble walls with stugged and droved yellow sandstone ashlar dressings.

S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: single storey, 3 bay symmetrical porch projecting at ground; centre bay advanced with 2 leaf vertically boarded round arched timber entrance door with 3 pane fanlight rising into gable breaking eaves, flanking round arched windows with 5 pane timber fixed lights; cement rendered infill to side windows. Pair of round arched blinded windows rising over porch in gable behind; blind narrow round arched window in gablehead, gabled ashlar belfry (with bell in round arched opening) on rectangular plinth at apex.

E AND W (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 5 bays, regularly fenestrated, tall round arched window with 13 pane timber fixed lights.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: harled, piend roofed vestry with 4 pane timber sash and case windows projecting at ground. Gable behind matching S gable but with single flue ashlar stack at apex.

Small-pane glazing to fixed-lights, or 4-pane timber sash and case, all with Y-traceried upper panes. Purple grey slate roof. Droved ashlar skew copes, stepped at median, and with gabletted and bracketted skewputts.

INTERIOR: tiled vestibule floor and vertically boarded timber wainscoting. Pair of 2 leaf, 4 panel inner entrance doors to hall (now sub divided 1996). Timber fittings to hall includes vertically boarded wainscoting and pews, panelled pulpit centring N wall, fronted by balustrade with ball finialled, stop chamfered newels; 4 panel vestry door to left. Timber lined ceiling with exposed rafters bearing on stone corbels.

BOUNDARY WALL: random rubble wall enclosing kirkyard; square capped cement rendered and lined gatepiers centred on S elevation, additional gate to NE corner of kirkyard with capped square gatepiers.

Statement of Special Interest

In ecclesiastical use. This is a deceptively large and finely finished church, prominently sited on the hillside above Bigton.

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