Church of Scotland, North Church, Strathearn Terrace and Ferntower Road, Crieff

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Crieff NGR NN 86626 21864 Coordinates 286626, 721864 — T L Watson, Glasgow, 1884. First Pointed gothic revival church converted as church hall, with aisled 4-bay nave, entrance apse and 5-stage tower with clasping buttresses and attenuated spire. Narrow bands of bull-faced ashlar with contrasting rock-faced and polished ashlar dressings. Pointed-and shouldered-arch openings. Chamfered plinth, string and eaves courses. Hoodmoulds with label stops, raked cills and stone mullions. Boarded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: apsidal centre bay with small steeply-pitched cross-finialled porch with moulded doorpiece, engaged colonettes and 2-leaf door, 2 small lancets to left and 3 tall lancets with colonnettes as above, conical roof over. Slightly lower set-back bay to right with lancet to each stage, small at 1st stage and taller above. Tower (see below) in re-entrant angle to left. TOWER: 1st stage N with door and porch (as above but gablehead with tiny raised-centre triple lancet detail) breaking paired string courses into 2nd stage, single pointed-arch window to E. 2nd stage with gunloops flanking cross finial to N and 2 narrow lights to E giving way to shallow 3rd stage with tripartite gunloop-type opening to N, W and E. Tall 4th stage with single gunloop to each face giving way to reduced octagonal 5th stage with alternating large louvered openings and polygonal angle turrets each with blank 1st stage and tiny gunloop to each face at 2nd stage and attenuated polygonal ashlar finialled roof echoing spire above, latter with additional fleche to alternate faces. E (STRATHEARN TERRACE) ELEVATION: single stage 4-bay nave aisle with d

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.