Description

E B Lamb, architect, 1864. Unusual chunky Gothic polychrome
granite church. Rectangular hall with nave adjoined by
narrower lower chancel to E. Tower of 1875 to re-entrant
angle at NE. Porch to SW and vestry to SE, both low gabled
structures.
Bull-faced coursed rubble with granite margins, stepped
granite to basecourse. Window margins bull-faced to
wall-face, polished inner arrisses.
Pointed-arch entrance to porch, trefoil-headed lancets,
singly or grouped 2 x 2 at W gable or 5 at E gable. Granite
corbels at eaves support polished granite blocking course and
granite skews. Slate roofs with alternate rows of fish-scale
slates.
Tower buttressed and in 3 stages; corbelled 3rd stage with
trefoiled lights in roundels; corbelled parapet stepped-up at
angles.
INTERIOR: pointed chancel-arch supported on
label-stops/corbels. Octagonal timber pulpit. Roof ribs
supported on stone corbels. Stained glass by Taylor. Rubble
walls to churchyard with granite coping and caps to
gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17791558

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)