Description
Reginald Fairlie, dated 1925; minor alteration to cloister circa 1950. Cruciform-plan, aisless Romanesque church with low pyramidal-roofed NW tower and cloistral link to transept. Snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Droved ashlar base course with battered cope to E; eaves course. Round-headed openings. Buttresses; voussoirs; stone mullions.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation with tripartite arcade-effect entrance, 2-leaf outer doors with mosaic-detail tympanum flank small window to centre, each arch with engaged colonnettes; tripartite window above and arrowslit in gablehead.
NW (WELLESLEY ROAD) ELEVATION: small 5-light cloister to centre with adjacent boarded timber door to right, all under lean-to roof below 2 widely spread tripartite windows. Bell tower (see below) in penultimate bay to right and window to ground below tripartite window in bay to outer right. Transeptal-bay to left of centre with 3 windows, flanking full-height buttresses and arrowslit in gablehead, tripartite window to each return and 2 further tripartite windows in recessed bays to outer left (all tripartites at clerestorey level).
BELL TOWER: 2-stage, square-plan tower with windows to ground and on return to left at 1st stage, small engaged conical-roofed tower with arrowslits close to eaves on return to right with lower link in re-entrant angle and small window above. Slightly set-back 2nd stage with 3 square-headed arrowslits to each elevation giving way to finialled pyramid roof.
SE ELEVATION: transeptal bay to right of centre with 3 windows, flanking full-height buttresses and arrowslit in gablehead; door in small porch in re-entrant angle to right, and tripartite window to each return; 2 further tripartite windows in recessed bay to outer right. 4 single lights to left of centre, and small pyramid-roofed session house to outer left.
NE ELEVATION: blind 5-light arcaded opening with engaged colonnettes close to gablehead, and flanked by full-height buttresses with carved panels, that to right dated 1925.
Multi-pane leaded glazing (stained glass see below). Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews.
INTERIOR: nave spanned by transverse concrete arches springing from attached stone columns with variously carved cushion capitals, segmental-headed ashlar arches to transepts and round-headed chancel arch. Rushworth and Dreaper organ to E with richly carved screen bearing Celtic and early Christian symbolism, integral elders' stall with arm-rests carved with beasts. Jacobean style pulpit; stone font and fixed timber pews. Small gallery to W over narthex.
STAINED GLASS: WWI memorial to N transept; WWII memorial by William Wilson (dedicated 9 Oct 1949) to S nave; John Davidson, Shipmaster and Pilot, Memorial 'Christ Stilling the Sea' c1939 to S nave; S transept 3 lights depicting SS John, Andrew and Paul, c1925.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: saddleback-coped boundary walls with pyramid-coped ashlar gatepiers and decorative cast-iron gates.