Gardner Memorial Church, Damacre Road, Brechin

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 11/06/1971 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Brechin NGR NO 60061 60166 Coordinates 360061, 760166 — 1896-1900. Sir J J Burnet. Free gothic, mixed Romanesque and late Gothic motifs with much sculpture. Low intimate proportions, snecked rubble with red sandstone dressings, church and hall unit at right angles on corner site. Church lies E and W, S E tower bay with gallery flanked at NE bay by apsidal stair turret, 3 bays of nave, one-bay sanctuary. N aisle of almost the same height, hall range runs N from tower fronting St Ninian's Square with cloister on W side to grassed court in angle of church. Tower: bold squat proportions with splayed angles, 3 stages, E face has lower 2 vertically integrated within neo-Norman arch, gothic sculptures spandrel panel, belfry stage 2 pairs of 2-light openings with 2 orders of shafts, sculptured capitals, deep corbelled parapet with angle rounds slated pyramid roof, circular turret corbelled to octagonal at NW angle. Flanking gallery stair projection, canted front with shafted angles and single lancets, deep plain parapet. Flank of church to Damacre Road pinnacled buttress at tower and 4 bays of paired lancets under broad-eaved bracketted roof. Hall range incorporates vestibule of church opening off transe serving both church and hall, E frontage to St Ninians Square (left to right) rich arched doorway of 2 orders, inner sculptured, outer cusped, niched jambs, stepped parapet over with rich late Gothic niche, art-nouveau wrot-iron gates; 3 square-headed 3-light windows; doorway raised in parapet; and buttressed gable-front of N hall with 3 stepped lancets, tall roof within deep plain parapet. W courtyard side has open cloister feature with roof cantilevered radial struts from corbels on W wall o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.