Description

1844; tower, E bay, canted W bay, Patrick Thoms and William Wilkie, 1906. Plain rectangular-plan church with later Romanesque tower to S gable and bay to E elevation. Stugged snecked rubble, stugged and margined ashlar dressings, slate roof, stone slates to tower. Round-headed windows with chamfered margins, 12-lying-pane fixed glazing; margined angles and sawtooth skews and stylized beakhead skewputts to S gable; 3-stage tower, margined angles, round-headed wallhead frieze with stylized beakhead corbels, paired windows with cushion-moulded mullions and nook shafts to 1st stage, stepped tripartite arcading to all elevations at top stage with louvred belfry openings to centre.

S GABLE: tower advanced to centre; scroll-moulded round-headed doorcase with hoodmould, door in recessed panel, small pentice-roofed single storey bays to left and right re-entrants, window to left, 2 windows to right, corbel table, corbelled eaves, stone slate roofs, bipartite windows above; single window to all elevations at 2nd stage, corbel table; 3rd stage set-back as belfry with ball-finialled pyramidal roof. Blinded window to main gable left and right, painted as 14-lying-pane glazing.

E ELEVATION: 4-window bay advanced to centre, window to left (blinded and painted as 12-lying-pane) and right returns, bracketted gables with plain bargeboards; window to main elevation left and right.

N GABLE: window off-centre left, lean-to to right, blocked window to roofspace, deep bracketted eaves.

W ELEVATION: full-height canted bay to centre with windows at upper parts; 2 windows and blocked door to left, 2 windows to right.

INTERIOR: not seen.

BOUNDARY WALL AND RAILINGS: rubble boundary wall to N and E, decorative cast-iron railings to S.

Statement of Interest

An ecclesiastical building not in use as such; the congregation was united with St Columba?s in 1945 when this building was sold. The Free Church congregation was established in Longforgan in 1843, removing to this site the following year.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17846494

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