Old Parish Church, Kirk Wynd, Blairgowrie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Blairgowrie And Rattray NGR NO 17804 45617 Coordinates 317804, 745617 — Possibly William Stirling, dated 1824; end porches and renovation 1884. Piend-roofed, 5-bay, rectangular-plan church with slim 4-stage pagoda-roofed tower. Ashlar. Base and eaves courses; raked courses and deep mutuled eaves cornice to tower. Pointed-arch openings; corbels, voussoirs; stone transoms and mullions; chamfered arrises to porches. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Tower (see below) projecting at centre bay with almost full-height windows to flanking bays, that to left of centre margined and part-blocked, that to outer left Y-traceried and 4-light mullioned, both windows to right blocked. TOWER: 1st stage with blocked door below blinded tall traceried fanlight to W and blocked windows to S and E, all giving way to corbelled course and 2nd stage with fielded panel worded 'This Church was built 1824 / The Rd James Johnstone Minister / William Macpherson Esq laid the Foundation Stone' and 4-light mullioned Y-traceried window to S, blinded window to W and blocked window to E. Reduced 3rd stage with canted angles and louvered opening to each elevation giving way to set-back arcaded belfry at 4th stage and surmounted by weathervane-finialled, slated, wide-eaved, pagoda roof E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: low crenellated porch to centre with boarded timber door and blocked fanlight on return to right, top of blocked window behind and windows in flanking bays, that to right blinded, that to left blocked. W ELEVATION: mirrors the above but all windows blocked. N (REAR) ELEVATION: small lean-to brick extension at centre and blocked windows in flanking bays. Some diamond-pattern leaded glazing

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.