Description
John Robertson, 1903-6. Gothic. Orientated E/W; bull faced
rubble with finely tooled dressings of lighter stone, inside
and out. Entrance in E gable in recessed porch with large
decorated Gothic window over, small bell-cast spire to left
lit by long lancets and 3-stage tower to right surmounted by
pinnacles and steeple, with second entrance at base. Angle
buttresses. 5-bay flanks with lancets at lower course and
paired or triple lances within Gothic arches at upper level.
Buttresses with plain pinnacles. Apse to W with 3 long lancet
windows.
INTERIOR: Open panelled timber roofs; gallery (N) front with
Gothic decoration, divided by pillars; continuous gallery
front to W end, with shallow ogee front.
Stained glass to all windows at both upper and lower levels
to S elevation, and single window in Baptistry, by Douglas
Strachan. E and W windows by Percy C Bacon, circa 1920. Font
by Stewart McGlashan and Co, Edinburgh (copy of font at
Dryburgh Abbey in white marble). Octagonal pulpit of Caen
stone with reddish marble columns, by Hardman, Powell and Co, Birmingham. Holy table of similar stone with green marble
embellishments by Galbraith and Winton, Glasgow.
Later 18th century pair polished ashlar channelled corniced
gatepiers surmounted by ball finials. Linked by short dwarf
wall surmounted by spearheaded railings to flanking square
rough ashlar corniced piers. Rough ashlar wall with stone
cope.