Menmuir Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 11/06/1971 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Parish Menmuir NGR NO 53411 64365 Coordinates 353411, 764365 — David Smith, 1842 incorporating dated 1639 burial vault; circa 1947 interior refurnishing. Rectangular-plan former parish church. Stugged, squared and coursed red sandstone with margins. Base course. Shallow pointed-arched openings with chamfered arises. 2-light and Y-traceried windows; those to N, W and S elevation with stone transom. Cruciform finial to E gable. W gable with window flanked by entrances with 2-leaf panelled timber doors; square bellcote with finial to gable apex. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: N elevation incorporating burial vault of the Carnegys of Balnamoon off centre to left; elliptical arch with heraldic panel above (see NOTES) and later inscribed stone plaques; enclosed by low sandstone ashlar wall with moulded cope and topped by cast iron decorative railings and taller rubble and coped wall to E with memorial plaques. S elevation with carved memorial panel to left set within gableted frame and carved angel head at apex (see NOTES). Pitched roof, grey slates. Saddlebacked-coped skews and moulded skewputts. INTERIOR (seen 2012): coombed and ribbed ceiling with corbels and foliated bosses. Raked timber gallery to W wall supported on painted cast iron columns, with cusped carving to balustrade. Refurnished circa 1947 including timber pulpit. — Place of worship no longer in use as such. This former parish church is as a good example of its building type and forms an important group with the adjacent churchyard (see separate listing). Externally the building is largely unaltered exhibiting simple architectural detailing appropriate for its rural setting. The fabric of the building incorporates important 17th century monu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.