Lochlee Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 11/06/1971 Last Date Amended 15/01/1980 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Parish Lochlee National Park Cairngorms NGR NO 44564 80418 Coordinates 344564, 780418 — 1803, repaired and enlarged 1824. Small, 4-bay, rectangular-plan symmetrical gabled parish church with gothick windows and gablehead bellcote. Grey harl with sandstone ashlar quoin strips, and window and door margins. Principal elevation facing road (S) with 2 large Y-tracery windows (with timber mullions) to inner bays and timber-panelled entrance doors with pointed arch fanlights and quatrefoil lights above to outer bays. Small pointed-arch windows to each gable. Simple bellcote with pierced decoration, pointed finial and small bell to W gable; pointed stone finial to E gable. Small-pane glazing in timber windows. Ashlar-coped skews. Graded grey Scottish slate with stone ridge tiles. INTERIOR: little-altered interior with fine timber fixtures and fittings. Pulpit at E end with steps up each side and ogee-hooded sounding board. Panelled gallery at W end supported on 2 timber columns. Pews and carved communion table. Cast-iron stove with fender. Tongue and groove panelling to dado. Marble memorial to the Reverend David Inglis on N wall. Timber stair to small session room from entrance lobby. CHURCHYARD: roughly rectangular churchyard enclosed by random rubble boundary wall. Gravestones mainly late 19th century with a few earlier. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The churchyard was formerly listed separately. A picturesque and little-altered church occupying a prominent position by the road into Lochlee. It was built to replace an earlier church, the ruins of which stand at the E end of Loch Lee. The graveyard at the older church continued to be used by some families a

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.