Free Church, Coupar Angus Road, Muirhead Of Liff

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 25/02/1993 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Parish Liff And Benvie NGR NO 34159 34448 Coordinates 334159, 734448 — Dated 1843. Broad rectangular-plan, 4-bay church. Rubble, stugged and margined dressings, slate roof. Round-headed windows with droved and chamfered margins; coped skews with skewblocks; corniced birdcage bellcote with bell to N gable, block finial to S gable, ridge ventilator; corniced wallhead stacks to W elevation. S GABLE: modern square-headed door to centre, gabled canopy porch, window to left, chamfered and louvred aperture to roof space. E ELEVATION: 4 windows, round-headed chamfered and louvred aperture to roof space. W ELEVATION: 2 windows off centre left, advanced bay with swept roof to right, advanced bay with pentice-roof to left, door to far left. INTERIOR: roof and gallery appear boxed-in, cast-iron columns remaining; memorials to Rev W R Moncur, 1st minister, and Rev John Kennedy on E wall. N GABLE: 2 tall windows, round-headed. GATEPIER AND BOUNDARY WALLS: pyramidal-capped stugged ashlar gatepier to N, round-headed gatepost, coped rubble walls. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. This church was built as Liff Free Church in the year of the Disruption, 1843. Muirhead united with Lundie in 1953. Although of modest architectural quality, the church is listed particularly because it dates from 1843. Part of a B group with Lundie and Muirhead War Memorial, The Old School House 147 Coupar Angus Road, Muirhead School (Original Building) and Muirhead School (Later Building).

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.