Church Overview

Built in Early English Gothic style in 1884 to the designs of architect William Gardner Rowan, of McKissack and Rowan, then further extended in the 1930s by architect Joseph Wilson, who added the present chancel and vestry. This is a rectangular plan church, with a square clock tower in its south east corner, built with irregular coursed ochre sandstone. Its windows contain some lovely tracery and there is well-executed carved Celtic cross finial on the eastern gable. 

There is a pointed arched doorway to the east of the building which is framed by a gabled surround with chamfered reveals, a moulded architrave and flanking piers with gablets. The flanking piers are inscribed ‘ERECTED 1884’ and ‘ENDOWED 1889’. The entrance is surrounded by small windows and a principal three-light stained glass window with cinquefoil details. 

Inside there is a five-bay nave, bipartite windows with intersecting tracery. Its galleries are built on cast-iron columns ad the pipe organ of 1903 is by Blackett and Howden. The stained glass in the chancel windows are by James Ballantine, and were installed in 1937, at the same time as the new chancel and many furnishings. The wall painting in the Fulton Memorial Transept is by Scottish artist Alasdair Gray and was completed in 1973 and the building’s Centenary Chapel was opened in 1984.

There is an ongoing extension being added to the church building and grounds, due to be completed in 2026.

Services

Sundays: 10.30am. See website for other services

Opening Arrangements

Open by arrangement

Disclaimer

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