Description

P P Pugin, 1898. Decorated Gothic church with nave, aisles, apsed chancel and baptistry. Squared red sandstone, rock-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings.

Tall gabled E front with projecting semi-octagonal baptistry to S. 2 pointed arched entrances with simple nook shafts and dedication crosses flank gable. Tall 7-light E window, elaborately cusped with mouchette

tracery; louvred gablehead opening and apex finial. 7-bay nave with small buttresses to N, cusped, 5-light clerestorey windows with lean-to confessionals to S.

INTERIOR: organ gallery at E, 3 wide arches to nave arcade with arch moulding dying into circular piers. Engaged shafts rise from springing of arches and support timber trussed roof. All original fittings, including seating, marble altar rail with brass gates, elaborate canopied marble reredos, some stencil work and chancel roof. Elaborately carved altarpieces to side chapels. Simple baptistry.

Stained glass in E window by John Hardman studios 1951.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Cost $9,000.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807280

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