Description

J Dick Peddie, architect. Dated 1895. Romanesque revival

church. Snecked bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings

and heavy clasping angle buttresses. Rectangular-plan with

slightly lower chancel at E, massive 2-stage square tower at

E and porch placed at W end of long N wall. Round-headed

openings and hood-moulded doors.

TOWER: E facing door in re-entrant angle; louvered bipartite

belfry openings to elevations, shafted mullions with

scalloped capitals; corbelled parapet, with spouts, encloses

slated thin steeple with weathervane finial.

Main body of church: Single lights to bays, 3-light gable

windows. Straight skews with cross finials. Slate roofs.

INTERIOR: contrasting long-and-short-worked dressings and white-plastered walls; wide chancel arch; octagonal oak

pulpit; open timbered roof.

Situated to NW of old cemetary, and enclosed mostly by iron

railings on low cope; war memorial cross to NW, finial from

old parish church N gable placed between tower and porch

(finial listed separately).

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

Allan R Crombie and Frank Carruthers both submitted plans for

enlarging old church as well as for a new building. Inscribed

1704 bell, by John Meikle of Edinburgh formerly in old

church, noted in RCAHM INVENTORY, 1920 no 96.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792406

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)