Moulin Church, Moulin Square, Moulin

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Pitlochry NGR NN 94419 59230 Coordinates 294419, 759230 — John Campbell Walker (Edinburgh), 1831, rebuilt and spire added 1875, porch after 1926. Simple gothic, rectangular aisless church with centre tower and slated pyramid spire. Roughly coursed snecked rubble with droved and stugged margins. Segmental-headed openings. 2- and 3-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses; voussoirs; stop-chamfered arrises. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical 5-bay elevation with dividing buttresses. Advanced tower (see below) to centre with tall windows in flanking bays; small jerkin-headed bipartite dormer windows with trefoil-headed tracery and decorative cast-iron finials over bays 2 and 4, 2 small ridge ventilators above. TOWER: 3-stage tower with full-height 3-stage diagonal buttresses and pyramidal spire with decorative cast-iron cockerel weathervane. 1st stage with timber door to N and square-headed window to W; drip course to N giving way to 2nd stage with window below roundel (both louvered) to N, E and W; moulded course at 3rd stage below trefoil-headed, slate-roofed, bipartite, louvered lucarne with small blind roundel and decorative cast-iron finial to each face. S ELEVATION: tall window to each of 5 bays with dividing buttresses and 3 dormer windows (as above) over centre bays. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation. Later small pitch-roofed porch to centre with blind roundel in gablehead, pointed-arch timber door on return to right and 2 trefoil-headed windows on return to left; further lean-to addition with door and small window adjoining to right. Tall window at 2nd stage and stone-cross-finialled gablehead. W ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation with 2-leaf square-h

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.