Description
1858. Gothic church with 6-bay nave and square 2-stage tower with octagonal spire. Small blocks of roughly squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, some stugged. Raised ashlar base course and eaves course. Sawtooth-coped, 2- and 3-stage buttresses; hoodmoulds with label stops. Trefoil- and multifoil-headed lights, some set into pointed-arch frames; traceried NE window. Chamfered reveals, stone mullions and raked cills. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges.
NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone-finialled gabled elevation. Centre bay with steps up to deeply-moulded doorway with flanking engaged colonettes and 2-leaf doors under elaborate stepped hoodmould with trefoil moulding at each step and as blind arcade at apex, and flanking buttresses with moulded detail at 1st stage; broad, 3-part window above with wide 2-light traceried centre and glazed trefoil in gablehead. Flanking bays each with 2-light window in pointed-arch frame. Tower (see below) to outer right.
TOWER: engaged 1st stage with moulded doorway to NE giving way to stepped and battered dividing course adjoining 3-stage angle buttresses. 2nd stage with narrow light at centre NE and narrow bipartite to NW giving way to corbelled, rectangular-plan, 2-part, louvered opening piercing mutuled cornice and rising into pedimented clock face at each elevation. Set-back, finialled octagonal spire with tiny fleche to alternate faces close to apex.
SE ELEVATION: 5 regularly-disposed bays, each with tall 2-light window and dividing buttresses; voussoired, roll-moulded, pointed-arch doorway with flanking buttresses forming small porch. Glazed rooflight to right and 2 diminutive roof ventilators close to ridge.
SW (REAR) ELEVATION: gabled elevation with tall traceried lancet to right, pointed-arch opening high up at centre and gablehead stack. Low piend-roofed projection (vestry) with door and 2 windows adjoining Church Hall (see below) beyond. Steps down to basement boiler room.
Largely diamond-pattern leaded glazing with some coloured glass and margin glazing to traceried windows; small pane glazing patterns in timber sash and case windows. Grey slates with fishscale bands to spire. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers.
INTERIOR: raked gallery with simply carved panelled front on cast-iron columns to E; simple fixed timber pew benches, some box pews at gallery, and alternate pews with cast-iron umbrella stands; broad-span, timber-lined, hammerbeam roof. Vestibule with carved stone font, decoratively-panelled doors and cantilevered winding staircase with decorative cast-iron balusters; marble, timber and bronze mural monuments including WWI memorials (see Notes). Aisle doors lead to body of church with dominant carved organ housing to W incorporating lectern at centre and flanked by pointed-arch doors with traceried windows beyond; carved pulpit and font. Tower clock dated 1869 by Blairgowrie maker.
CHURCH HALL: rectangular-plan, slated, rubble hall with decorative bargeboarding, decorative ironwork finials and boarded timber doors.
SW ELEVATION: centre bay with raised-centre tripartite window in over-arched frame; timber doors to flanking pitch-roofed porches with raised ashlar base course.
NE ELEVATION: square-headed window to centre, low building (vestry) projecting at right and blocked door at left.
SE ELEVATION: door and 3 small windows grouped toward outer right.
INTERIOR: boarded dadoes; boarded doors with decorative ironwork door furniture to vestry, and panelled doors; timber fire surrounds. Large 4-part folding door and some open-timbered roof space with metalwork braces.