Description

Designed by Hew Montgomerie Wardrop circa 1886, executed by
Sir R Rowand Anderson 1889-90; never completed. Gothic style.
Snecked, rake-jointed sandstone rubble, stugged ashlar
dressings, red tiled roof. Plain skew with gablet skewputts.
Nave running E-W without aisles. Truncated tower with
pyramidal roof to N at crossing point, porch at NW and small
chapel at SW opposite.
E GABLE: 2 clasping and 2 stepped buttresses. Base and string
courses. Central, decoratively canopied niche, rose window
above. Lancet windows, with mouchettes, flanking between
buttresses. Cross finial. Flanking chancel bays N and S with
cusped round arched windows.
N FRONT: massive tower adjoining with stepped angle
buttresses; 2-light arched, traceried windows at low level.
2 pointed windows in nave to W. Steeply gabled crowstepped
porch to W with pointed arched entrance.
W GABLE: unbuttressed, with Y-mullioned 4-light pointed
windows, with cusped mouchettes and hoodmould.
ST MARGARET'S CHAPEL: Gilbert Ogilvie, architect, 1919. Set
back from W gable, abutting rubble rigg wall at S. Pointed,
2-light traceries window.
INTERIOR: Plaster and sandstone ashlar dressings. Continuous
nave and chancel; nave of 5 bays. Open vault with double tie
beamed timber roof to nave; wagon-roof to chancel. Oak rood
screen with figures, Willis 1896. Carved oak pulpit,
communion table and rail.
STAINED GLASS: E gable windows 1889-90 and 2 nave windows,
Ballantine and Gardner 1904. 2 nave windows, Abbey Studio
1945-6. Other windows lead paned. Vestry room and organ in
tower through chancel arch. War memorial in St Margaret's
Chapel. Coffered and painted ceiling; sandstone aumbry and
oak reredos. Stained glass, Butler and Bayne, circa 1920.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Unexecuted design by

Sir Robert Lorimer for reredos 1893.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17803988

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)