Description

James Black, 1824-6; 3rd and 4th stage of tower, spire, vestry and south bay 1858, Charles Edward, architect, John Glenday, John Taylor and James Archer, masons; organ chamber 1875, James MacLaren and George Shaw Aitken. Rectangular-plan, Gothic style church with tower and spire at W. Rubble masonry, polished and rendered and lined dressings, slate roof. Windows mainly single or paired lancets. Skew gables.

N ELEVATION: 3-bayed; porch at centre with moulded Gothic arch, hoodmould, 2-leaf panelled door with blind arcading and tracery, margined angles, Celtic cross finial. Flat-roofed flanking wings with paired lights and moulded cornice. Large 2-light Y-traceried windows left and right at main elevation; central gable with rose window and Celtic cross finial.

W ELEVATION: M roof; 4-stage tower advanced from original gable at left; margined angles, string courses, door at 1st stage N, blocked at W, short pointed lights N and W; 3 lancets at 2nd stage; e paired louvred lancets at set-back 3rd stage; 4 clock faces at 4th stage in open pediment, eaves course; broached spire with louvred dormers at 2-stages, slate roof with fiishscale band, weathervane. Gable at right with advanced lean-to single storey vestry; apex stack.

S ELEVATION: 3-bayed advanced central gable (organ chamber, 1875), 2 round-headed windows with continuous cill course, oculus at gable; lancets at flanking bays; vestry at left with Y-traceried window.

E ELEVATION: 2-bayed, M roof, door at left, single storey porch at original gable right, piend roof, multi-paned window, door at N, blocked at S; short pointed light at gallery level, small glazed oculus at gable.

INTERIOR: near square plan; semi-octagonal gallery with blind trefoil tracery N, E and W, cast-iron columns; organ and pulpit at S centre, partly recessed in moulded alcove with flanking round-headed windows and oculus. Central war memorial communion table, lectern at left (1924), font at right (1921). Windows mainly clear, diamond glazing with red margins; stained glass at organ alcove by G F Campfield, 1893, left gifted by John Watson Wemyss, right in memory of James Soote of Reres House.

CHURCHYARD: numerous 19th century upright tombstones dated at top, also grave of Thomas Dick (1774-1857), astronomer and philosopher; enclosing stone wall at S and W, brick at E, railings at N with 2 pyramidal gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such; opened 7th May 1826 to serve summer visitors and expanding population of East and West Ferry, formally constituted a Chapel of Ease 1827, becoming a church and parish QUOAD SACRA 15th July 1863.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17813374

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
• 
  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)