Longforgan Parish Church, Main Street, Longforgan

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Parish Longforgan NGR NO 30933 29996 Coordinates 330933, 729996 — Gothic hall church of different periods, consisting of tower and spire at W dated 1690, plain rectangular chancel dated 1794 incorporating 15th century W wall, chancel and gallery stair Alexander Hutcheson, 1899. Rubble built, harl pointed at S elevation of chancel, stugged and snecked with ashlar dressings at 1899 additions, irregular quoins to earlier parts, slate roof. 2-stage tower with spire. Large pointed windows with timber Y-tracery at S elevation, rectangular windows to N with round-headed cross-shaped astragals and cathedral glass at gallery level, stepped pointed windows to chancel, Tudor-arched doors and windows to stair tower and chancel porches, round windows and square- headed louvred belfry openings to tower; wallhead course, leaded coped skews with skew blocks, cross-finial to E gable. W GABLE: tower advanced to centre, slightly advanced 1st stage with door, tall 2nd stage with 3 round windows (date plaque to lowermost), round window to return elevations, belfry opening and 2 round blocked openings to top at N, S and W elevations, balustraded parapet, further set-back stage with slated broached spire and lucarnes, clock face to E and W, weathercock finial; 2-stage stair tower recessed at right re-entrant, rounded angle, door and window to 1st stage, 3 windows to 2nd stage, curved roof; single storey rounded heating chamber to left re-entrant, door, curbed roof; evidence of earlier smaller gable within current gable recessed to left and right. S ELEVATION: 5 windows, centre blocked, sundial to left angle. E GABLE: datestone at gable apex, chancel gable advanced to centre with tripartite

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.