Description

Circa 1807, remodelled in 1897. 6 x 1-bay hall church of rectangular plan with gabled single storey entrance porch and porch/vestry projecting at centres of E and W gables respectively. Harled walls, cement and droved and polished sandstone ashlar margins and details.

E GABLE: modern timber doors with plate glass fanlights to N and S elevations of entrance porch; 9-pane fixed-lights centring E and at left in N elevation; celtic cross at gable apex. Single window centred in principal gable behind; cement-rendered and lined belfry at apex, gabled with segmental-arched opening containing bell.

N ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre and flanking bays; blank in bays to outer right and left.

W GABLE: door to left and window at right in N elevation of porch/ vestry; modern addition in re-entrant angle to S; 2-light timber mullioned window centred in principal gable behind; celtic cross at apex.

S ELEVATION: round-arched windows in centre 4 bays; keystoned in centre 2 bays, lower windows to outer left and right.

INTERIOR: timber fittings including vertically-boarded wainscoting, lined ceiling with exposed beams bearing on stone corbels. Raked gallery with panelled front at E end. Ball-finialled newels to balustrade fronting pulpit to W; panelled screen with decorative cresting behind.

15-pane timber fixed-lights to principal round-arched windows, 12-pane timber sash and case windows and 9-pane fixed-lights to other openings. Purple slate roof with cement-rendered skew copes.

RAILINGS, WALLS AND GATES: rubble dwarf wall surmounted by concrete cope and decorative cast-iron railing to S, E, and N. Cement-rendered and lined square gatepiers with corniced pyramidal caps to N and S of porch; 2-leaf decorative cast-iron gates.

Statement of Interest

In ecclesiastical use. Sandwick was remodelled in 1897, when the two rectangular doors were converted to windows, the porches and bellcote were added, and the pulpit moved from the S to the W wall.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17851225

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