Erskine Parish Church (Church Of Scotland) Including Church Hall And Boundary Wall, Hodge Street And Cockburn Street

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 16/06/2008 Local Authority Falkirk Planning Authority Falkirk Burgh Falkirk NGR NS 88504 79766 Coordinates 288504, 679766 — A&W Black, 1903-5. Roughly rectangular-plan, gabled, Perpendicular Gothic church with pinnacled 3-stage tower adjoining principal gable with twin-arched entrance at ground and large tracery window above; well-detailed interior; church halls and meeting rooms adjoining to rear. Snecked, bull-faced, Eastfield sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; discontinuous string course; eaves course and parapet to side elevations with moulded cope and slim pinnacles. Shouldered angle buttresses; pointed-arch windows with roll-moulded and chamfered margins; hoodmoulds; larger windows with stone mullions and tracery; stone-mullioned and transomed multi-light square-headed windows with chamfered margins to halls. PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: stone steps with coped side walls and decorative wrought-iron railings to double-arched entrance with wrought-iron gates, ornamental spandrels, frieze and flanking engaged octagonal pinnacles; large tracery window above; buttress with crocketed pinnacle to left; cross finial to gable apex. Tower advanced to right with louvered belfry openings, crenellated and pierced parapet and crocketed pinnacles. 2-stage stair tower slightly recessed to left of gable with buttressed, canted end and narrow pointed-arch windows following line of stair. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: side elevations with lean-to side aisles, bipartite clerestory windows and gabled transepts with large tracery windows. Church hall with timber panelled door in gabled porch to N side; timber panelled door with hoodmould to S side. Fixed-pane leaded lights to church; plate glass in timber sash and case windows to hall. Ashlar-coped skews. Ashla

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.