Aberfeldy Parish Church, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 09/06/1981 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Aberfeldy NGR NN 85458 48856 Coordinates 285458, 748856 — John and G P K Young (Perth), 1884. Plain gothic church with 3-bay aisless nave, transepts and slated fleche. Squared and snecked chlorite-slate rubble with polished ashlar dressings; harl to W. Raised base course. Single- and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses; hoodmoulds, some with label stops. Geometrical- and plate-traceried windows. Voussoirs; chambered reveals, raked cills and stone mullions. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork. E (CRIEFF ROAD) ELEVATION: broad gable with angle buttresses and slightly advanced centre with 3 trefoil-headed lights under continuous hoodmould at 1st stage giving way to large 4-lancet Geometric window with hoodmould and label stops, glazed quatrefoil in stone cross-finialled gablehead. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tall 2-stage gabled porch projecting to left of centre with angle buttresses, return to left with steps up to doorway with hoodmould, floreate label stops and deep-set 2-leaf door giving way to bipartite window at 2nd stage. 2 plate-traceried 2-light windows with dividing buttress to centre and advanced gable to right with large raised centre tripartite windows and mandorla in gablehead; further single lancet to outer right. W ELEVATION: broad harled gable with rose window and single stage rubble chancel with single light to canted face of polygonal-roofed bay to centre; further smaller lancet to lean-to bay at left with small 2-leaf door on return to left and similar mirrored bay to right with additional tall shouldered stack (window boarded). S ELEVATION: mirrors N elevation but with ramp up to single stage porch with broad single leaf door, circular pane

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.