Description

1938-9, Erskine, Thomson & Glass. Single-storey, crow-stepped, gabled, symmetrical, Arts and Crafts church with adjoining single storey flat to N. Harled with artificial stone dressings, including at tall base course. Raised cills, cavetto eaves course.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: CHURCH ENTRANCE ELEVATION TO E: steps lead to central round-arched entrance with 2-leaf timber door. Flanking small window openings. 5-bay N elevation with central 3-bays with steep pedimented dormerheads breaking eaves.

Flat to left with advanced crowstepped bay with canted bay window to E elevation.

Predominantly 12-pane timber sash and case windows with horns to flat. Predominantly large, 12-pane timber windows to church with top-opening hoppers. Piended roofs to rear (W). Green slates, Raised skews and skewputts. Wallhead stacks, ridge stack, tall single stack to W.

INTERIOR: (seen 2009). Original plan largely extant. Church with timber dado panelling. Part-glazed 2-leaf interior swing door. Further 2-panel timber doors.

Flat with Art Deco walnut-effect fire surrounds and one tiled fire surround. Part-glazed entrance door at S. 2-panel timber doors.

Statement of Interest

Place of Worship in use as such. This is a distinctive, little altered, well-detailed church with an accompanying flat. Designed by a local architectural firm, the group is notable for its crow-stepped gables and steep pedimented dormerheads. Both make a significant and unusual addition to the streetscape here. The group was originally built as a hall and caretaker's flat for the Forteviot Charitable Trust in what was then a run-down area of the city.

A 2-storey block of flats, designed at the same time and in the same style sit immediately to the North of this group.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Perth Free Presbyterian Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q77781382

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)