Description

1858. Plain Gothic aisleless 5-bay church with single bay chancel and 2-storey L-plan presbytery attached. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings.

CHURCH: ashlar coped base course; windows with loop-tracery or open-trefoil heads, chamfered arrises.

E (ROSETTA ROAD) ELEVATION: gable of chancel projecting from taller gable of nave; lateral buttresses. Simple curvilinear 4-light window in deeply chamfered pointed-arch frame. Lateral buttresses; ashlar cross at chancel apex; wrought-iron cross at apex of nave. Link block of presbytery to left (see below).

N ELEVATION: stepped buttress between each bay; window to each bay. Left bay of nave with small projecting gabled side chapel; large open-trefoil windows in gablehead and to returns. Centre right bay with projecting gabled porch; pointed-arch hoodmoulded doorcase with square (uncarved ?) labelstops; blind trefoil in gablehead; wrought-iron finial; lateral buttresses.

W ELEVATION: rendered. Oculus at centre at ground; pair of 2-light trefoil-headed windows above gallery level; quatrefoil above at centre. Square buttressed apex (formerly base for bellcote ?) with wrought-iron cross.

S ELEVATION: 3 bays of nave to left; presbytery adjoined to right.

Leaded windows. Grey slates with fish-scale bands; cusped terracotta ridge tiles; square fleche with pagoda roof. Ashlar coped skews, corbel skewputts.

INTERIOR: plain braced open timber roof. Panelled gallery to rear supported on pair of square chamfered timber columns. Pointed ashlar arch frames chancel; grey marble altar and reredos. Side chapel to N. Limited amount of stained glass.PRESBYTERY: regular fenestration, chamfered arrises.

E (ROSETTA ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay gable to left; smaller windows in gablehead grouped to centre. 2-storey link to nave with pair of windows at 1st floor; projecting single storey link to chancel with pitched and flat roof; 2-leaf boarded door to left, 3 windows to right (centre bipartite). All windows hard under eaves.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay.

W ELEVATION: 2-bay gable to right with projecting lean-to closet and boilerhouse at ground. 2-bay link to left with bipartite window and glazed door at ground and 2 windows at 1st floor; glazed timber veranda between church and lean-to.

Timber sash and case windows; 3- and 6-pane. Grey slates; coped whinstone stacks with ashlar dressings; ashlar coped skews.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary walls with boulder and saddleback ashlar coping; wrought-iron gate to presbytery with coped square rubble gatepiers.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The 2-storey presbytery link was added after 1899. B Group with the former school and schoolhouse immediately to the N (see separate listing).

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17845895

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)