Description

J Graham Fairley, 1884-85 and 1903. Early Decorated church, oriented N-S of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Aisleless 3-bay nave with stairhall projections of differing design, lancet windows in N bay, that on W intended as base of tower, transepts and sanctuary on S deepened in 1903; halls sited transversely to rear at S end.

N (LORNE STREET) ELEVATION: gable front with stairhalls flanking, central doorway with 2 orders of shafts with foliate caps, trumeau and tympanum with 3 cusped circlets, flanking lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Large 4-light window above in recessed pointed-arched panel flanked by colonnettes, window divided 2-2 with cusped circlet plate tracery, big cinquefoil over; gablehead with vesica and flanking circlets; massive angle buttresses, rising into blind-arcaded octagonal pinnacles with polygonal ashlar caps.

STAIRHALL: W stairhall has piended roof, S stairhall gabled to Lorne Square with circular window over 3 lancets with straight hoodmould.

NAVE: flanks of nave buttressed 2-tier, triplet windows below, simple plate traceried 2-lights above; transepts have large untraceried circular windows with pointed hoodmould over deepening voussoirs.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: smaller circular window at hall gable.

Square-leaded-paned glazing to fixed windows. Grey slate roof.

INTERIOR: U-plan gallery on columns, hammerbeam type roof with tie beam and king posts at the base of the upper arch braces. Elaborate sanctuary, deepened 1903, with marble steps, pine panelling, divided organ case by Brindley & Foster 1903, and S window of 5 lights, stained glass of 1894; octagonal pulpit, red English alabaster communion table with relief of the Last Supper by W. Birnie Rhind, good angel lectern.

Bull-faced sandstone ashlar dwarf boundary wall to S and W with plain wrought-iron railings and gates. Square sandstone ashlar gate piers with stop-chamfered corners to shafts, bases and pyramidal caps.

Statement of Interest

The foundation stone was laid on 19th July 1884.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17806501

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  For the Record
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990