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Free Church, Coupar Angus Road, Muirhead Of Liff

A Category C Listed Building in Monifieth and Sidlaw, Angus

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Coordinates

Latitude: 56.4975 / 56°29'50"N

Longitude: -3.071 / 3°4'15"W

OS Eastings: 334159

OS Northings: 734448

OS Grid: NO341344

Mapcode National: GBR VH.4QKP

Mapcode Global: WH6PY.SYSB

Plus Code: 9C8RFWWH+XH

Entry Name: Free Church, Coupar Angus Road, Muirhead Of Liff

Listing Name: Muirhead of Liff, Coupar Angus Road, Lundie and Muirhead Church, Including Gatepier and Boundary Walls

Listing Date: 25 February 1993

Category: C

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 346274

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB13220

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200346274

Location: Liff and Benvie

County: Angus

Electoral Ward: Monifieth and Sidlaw

Parish: Liff And Benvie

Traditional County: Angus

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Description

Dated 1843. Broad rectangular-plan, 4-bay church. Rubble, stugged and margined dressings, slate roof. Round-headed windows with droved and chamfered margins; coped skews with skewblocks; corniced birdcage bellcote with bell to N gable, block finial to S gable, ridge ventilator; corniced wallhead stacks to W elevation.

S GABLE: modern square-headed door to centre, gabled canopy porch, window to left, chamfered and louvred aperture to roof space.

E ELEVATION: 4 windows, round-headed chamfered and louvred aperture to roof space.

W ELEVATION: 2 windows off centre left, advanced bay with swept roof to right, advanced bay with pentice-roof to left, door to far left.

INTERIOR: roof and gallery appear boxed-in, cast-iron columns remaining; memorials to Rev W R Moncur, 1st minister, and Rev John Kennedy on E wall.

N GABLE: 2 tall windows, round-headed.

GATEPIER AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pyramidal-capped stugged ashlar gatepier to N, round-headed gatepost, coped rubble walls.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. This church was built as Liff Free Church in the year of the Disruption, 1843. Muirhead united with Lundie in 1953. Although of modest architectural quality, the church is listed particularly because it dates from 1843. Part of a B group with Lundie and Muirhead War Memorial, The Old School House 147 Coupar Angus Road, Muirhead School (Original Building) and Muirhead School (Later Building).

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