Description

18th and 19th centuries. T-plan parish church with mainly

round-headed windows, gallery forestair and porches in

re-entrant angles, gable-head birdcage belfry over N jamb,

vestry and porch adjoin E and N gables respectively. 2 burial

enclosures (including fine renaissance Mossknowe enclosure -

listed separately) adjoin at W. Church built of red rubble,

ashlar dressings and margins; roofs covered with graded

slates, red ridging tiles, finials over E and W gables.

Suggested building sequence: E and W gables and N wall of

body of church probably 1733; "partly rebuilt" (NSA) circa

1778, i.e. (presumably) heightened several courses and long S

wall rebuilt (forming deeper plan church) with voussoired

key-stoned and aproned windows and narrow base course; N jamb

perhaps contemporary (though openings originally

square-headed). Renovated 1892 - N porch, roof with ridging

tiles and belfry all date from then.

INTERIOR: mostly probably by (?William) MacGowan, 1835. 3

galleries with panelled fronts and each supported on 2

slender cast-iron columns; octagonal pulpit central on south

wall, with round-arched back board.

CHURCHYARD: Circa 1796 rusticated Irving of Woodhouse

enclosure abuts jamb; red ashlar, white marble inscription

panels.

Plain red ashlar enclosure at SW end of churchyard.

Churchyard enclosed by ashlar-coped rubble built walls, gates

at N and at W with square gatepiers. Mainly 18th and 19th

century headstones.

Source: Historic Environment Scotland

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Source: Historic Environment Scotland