Achray Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Parish Callander National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NN 51517 06652 Coordinates 251517, 706652 — Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority Trossachs Parish Church is a small church built in 1849 by the architect G. P. Kennedy of Glasgow. The church sits to the W of the village of Brig O'Turk in a picturesque position on the N banks of Loch Achray. Built by local benefactors to provide a place of worship for the tourists that were staying around Loch Achray, the locals previously having travelled to Callander to worship. The church is simple in plan and elevation, appearing to be older than its date suggests through the use of simple materials and building techniques. Detailing, where it exists, is simple and bold in scale, in an early Gothic style. A well-preserved picturesque church of the mid 19th century. Representing the work of an architect significant to the area and demonstrating the direct effects that the 19th century tourism industry had upon the development of the Trossachs area. The church sits on an E-W axis, it is approached from the N with Loch Achray to the immediate S. The main body of the church is rectangular in plan, with an entrance porch to the S and a smaller, single room annex to the W. The 3-bay nave is divided by evenly spaced large rectangular angle buttresses framing openings. The N wall has a double lancet window to the central bay with single lancets to the outer bays. The porch is set to the centre bay of S (entrance) elevation, with flanking single lancets to the outerbays as the N. The walls are finished by an over-scale, plain ovolo-moulded eaves cornice, terminated at each end by large rectangular skewputts with ovolo-moul

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.