Description

Richard Park, architect, 1878. Former UF church, now in use as Museum. Gothic hall church with tall gable to street and spire to left. Coursed bull-faced rubble, polished cream and red sandstone dressings.

5-bay buttressed aisles. Entrance gable; pointed arch portal with nook shafts; 4 flanking asp-headed lancets. Above this, 3-light window with plate tracery. Buttressed aisles with 5 lancets. Spire in 3 stages with octagonal belfry stage rising to polychrome banded masonry spire with tiny louvered lucarnes, cross finial. Single storey piend-roofed vestry. End skews, banded slate roofs. Good cast-iron brackets to gutter. Interior: narthex with carved timber blind arcading. Main body of church with inserted floor and suspended ceiling.

BOUNDARY WALL, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: ashlar saddleback coping to low rubble walls. Part-chamfered gatepiers with tapered octagonal caps and moulded cornice bearing decorative cast-iron lamp standards (1 truncaded, 1 with lantern). Decorative cast-iron gates and railings.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17792009

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)