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Summary

Description

Plain 1869. 1st pointed Gothic church with 1868 manse to W

connected by narrow link. All built of channelled bull-faced

red ashlar with polished dressings and hoodmoulds; slate

roofs.

CHURCH: T-plan, with twin-gabled E and W transepts, plain

square tower with broach spire in SW re-entrant angle with

gabled porch at foot, main roof swept over porch in

corresponding SE re-entrant angle. Tower has gabled louvred

belfry openings to all elevations, breaking eaves; S-facing

doors; 3 tall lancets in each main gable - those to S with

hoodmould stepped to link with eaves - quatrefoil and cross

finial. Saw-toothed skews.

INTERIOR: 3 S windows by Wm Meikle and Sons, Glasgow and

single W transept window all World War I memorial windows.

Pulpit (on N gable) has simple gothic detailing and pointed

backboard; exposed main roof timbers on stone corbels.

MANSE: 2 storeys, asymmetrical, with gothic details.

S ELEVATION: 3 bays, the left with single windows and lean-to

porch (hood-moulded pointed doorway) front wall of latter on

same plane as advanced remaining bays; gabled central bay

with plate-traceried tall stair window, bipartites in piended

right bay; saw-toothed skews, coped end stacks. Link with

church has S-facing door.

Rubble-built boundary wall to S with cusped cast-iron

railings linking square gatepiers with gabletted caps.

Statement of Special Interest

Church an ecclesiastical building in use as such.

1790 datestone of previous church incorporated at S end of

church W wall.

Published sources such as MacKelviee's ANNALS...OF THE UP

CHURCH, 1873, only gives details of previous church.

Change of Category B to C(S) 4.10.88.

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