Baptist Church, Atholl Road, Pitlochry

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 20/12/2000 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Pitlochry NGR NN 94199 58030 Coordinates 294199, 758030 — D A Crombie, 1884. Small aisless, T-plan church with 2-stage stair tower and belfry, 2-bay nave with diagonal buttress. Squared rubble with dressed ashlar quoins. Part base course, stepped string course. Pointed-arch openings with chamfered reveals; hoodmoulds with label stops; traceried windows; stone mullions. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 2-stage gable to centre with steps and flanking dwarf walls leading to moulded doorcase with 2-leaf timber door and decorative ironwork hinges flanked by glazed oculi all below stepped string course, single stage buttress to right breaking into 2nd stage with hoodmoulded 3-light traceried window and arrowslit in block-finialled gablehead. Lower narrow piended bay to right of centre with small light and single stage diagonal buttress. Tower (see below) in bay to left. SW TOWER: 2-stage stair tower with narrow light at ground and simple 2-light traceried window above to S and W (latter both blocked and tracery removed), sawtooth reducing angles giving way to moulded frieze, polygonal roof and reduced 2nd stage (also polygonal) with arrowslits to S and W below attenuated ashlar-roofed spire with decorative cast-iron finial. W ELEVATION: 2-bay nave with basement door to outer right, and pagoda-roofed timber-louvered ridge ventilator to centre above; transeptal bay to left with single window and further window on return to right, modern extension abutting on return to left. Tower (see above) to outer right. E ELEVATION: as W elevation but without basement and tower. N ELEVATION: mostly obscured by later extension but with small traceried rose window in gablehead. Coloured leade

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.