Church Overview

One of Sir Robert Rowand Anderson’s most distinctive churches, this fine, little altered Victorian building opened in 1878. It is designed in Anderson’s signature Early Gothic style of nave with aisles and chancel in stone with a slate roof.

Polychrome brick and tiled walls and tiled floor give colour to the interior, complemented by stunning furnishings and works of art. These include the altar and reredos by artist Charles Eamer Kempe (1878), chancel screen by prolific Scottish architect Robert Lorimer (1922), an impressive brass eagle lectern and an eye-catching, late Gothic, gilt altar-piece with sculpture of the Nativity.

The church also possesses a remarkable collection of stained glass windows, depicting Christ, angels and a selection of male and female saints, by an impressive slate of well-known artists and studios – James Ballantine & Son, Clayton & Bell, Charles Eamer Kempe, Burlison & Grylls, John Charles Norman Bewsey, Isobel Turner Maxwell Goudie and Margaret Chilton. Its Conacher & Co organ was installed in 1878 and rebuilt by the firm of JJ Binns in 1935 and then again by Scottish organ-builder David Loosley in 1981.

The congregation fundraised for and undertook significant repairs to the church’s interior and exterior stonework and roof in 2024-25, ensuring the beautiful building remains in fine fettle ahead of its 150th anniversary in 2028.

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