Knox's U.F. Church and Church Hall, Mill Street, Montrose

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1999 Last Date Amended 21/10/2024 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Montrose NGR NO 71675 57995 Coordinates 371675, 757995 — 1851. Pointed arch church with adjacent and connecting vestry. 2-storey, triple-gable sandstone ashlar frontage with pinnacles, squared and ladder-pinned to sides and rear. Approximately square plan. Battered base course and moulding, cornice above ground floor. Splayed margins, battered cills. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. 3 gables divided by buttresses rising to gablets and pinnacles. Centre gable; 2 circular windows at ground with quatrefoil tracery, 3 stepped windows with hoodmoulds above, small circular quatrefoil window in gablehead, stone cross finial. Outer gables; doorway at ground, hoodmould, 2-leaf doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Window with hoodmould above. Angle buttresses with gablets flanking. S ELEVATION: 3 windows off-set to right. N ELEVATION: 3 windows off-set to left, vestry adjoining at ground. E ELEVATION: centre gable advanced; 2 windows with trefoil tracery and circular window above with quatrefoil tracery. Gables of aisles set back, that to left blank with later brick built lean-to at ground. That to right with vestry attached at ground. Single pitch roof, pointed arch window and plain window and door in return. HALL AND SESSION HOUSE: W ELEVATION: entrance arch with quatrefoil to right, connecting wing to church set back, pointed arch window, door to left in S face of hall. Session House to left with canted apsidal frontage, pointed arch windows with trefoil heads, that to centre a bipartite with quatrefoil head. Buttress to left. All windows with intact stained glass and leaded lights. Grey slate pitched roofs, stone skews. INTERIOR: remarkably fine and in

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.