Congregational Church, Museum Street, Montrose

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 11/06/1971 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Montrose NGR NO 71610 57765 Coordinates 371610, 757765 — Church 1841, Memorial Hall dated 1877 and 1895. 2-storey rectangular-plan classical church with asymmetrical hall additions extending N along Baltic Street. Sandstone ashlar to front and side, stugged and squared and snecked to other sides and rear. Entrance facade with base course, band course above ground floor, 1st floor cill cornice, eaves cornice and corniced parapet. Full width pediment with raised central pilastered and pedimented feature. CHURCH: S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 3-bay, symmetrical gable ended entrance front. Central pilastered porch with entablature, multi-panelled 2-leaf doors, flanking porch with consoled and pedimented heads, 2 leaded lights in timber frame of slender columnar mullion and round arches, slender transom astragal. 1st floor symmetrical but windows without pedimented heads. Full-width pedimented wallhead with octagonal end dies, raised centre bay bisecting pediment with paired pilasters framing central glazed oculus and supporting triglyph frieze, cornice and miniature pediment with flanking octagonal dies with facetted dome caps. W ELEVATION: 4 bays, regular fenestration, raised margins. E ELEVATION: 4 bays, regular fenestration, raised margins. N ELEVATION: adjoining Memorial Hall. MEMORIAL HALL. W (PRINCIPAL) HALL: 2 sections; 2-storey block to left, single storey entrance link with church to centre. Single storey building; 4 bays, central porch, corner pilasters, carved panel above doorway inscribed "Congregational Church Memorial Hall 1877", cornice and blocking course above with small raised panel. 2 stone steps to 2-leaf panelled doors, rectangular 2-pane fanlight. Door in return to right. 2

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.