Knox's Church, Howard Street, Arbroath

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/02/1989 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Arbroath NGR NO 63753 41393 Coordinates 363753, 741393 — James MacLaren, 1866. Gothic church on corner site with nave and aisles main gabled entrance front to Howard Street, angle nearest street corner carried 2 stages higher as square tower with clock and belfry (perhaps a spire was intended). T-plan with shallow gabled transepts, flank buttresses carried upwards through eaves. Double doorway below pointed arch, moulding continued as string at cill level, big geometric traceried window over; other windows mostly lancets. Snecked ashlar, polished dressings, blocked eaves, slate roofs. Galleried interior, 1895 organ by Peter Conacher & Co transferred from Brechin West Free Church in 1948. Iron-railed boundary wall stepped to slope. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Bell dated 1806 originally the 8 o'clock bell in the old church steeple.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.