Parish Church, Balfron Road, Killearn

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/09/1998 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Parish Killearn NGR NS 52281 86058 Coordinates 252281, 686058 — John Bryce, 1880-82. Early English cruciform church with tower and spire (100? high). Squared and snecked bull-faced sandstone; base course; string courses; battered buttresses. Plate tracery. Hoodmoulds and foliate labelstops. Chamfered reveals to pointed arch openings. E (ENTRANCE ELEVATION): tower to right (see below); broad door to centre of gabled elevation with carved bands to arch-surround and carved inscription (Nec tamen consumebatur) and burning bush to arch-head; 2-leaf boarded doors with decorative iron hinges; small lights flanking. Stepped tripartite window above, centre light 2-light with multi-foil above. Return elevation of gabled baptistery and aisles to left, buttressed with small light. TOWER: 3-stage tower with tall stone spire. slender lancets to each face of 1st stage, Roman numeralled clocks (Robert Bryson & Sons, Edinburgh) to 2 faces of 2nd stage in hoodmoulded recesses, 3rd stage battered with paired louvred lancets and carved wallhead frieze, all buttress flanked. Splayfoot spire with polygonal pinnacles rising from corner splays, with blind arrowlist to each face and polygonal caps; gabled lucarnes with plate tracery and louvring to each side. N AND S ELEVATIONS: paired lancets to each centre bay with dividing buttresses. Gabled transepts advanced to outer W bays with windows of 3-light plate tracery, quatrefoils in gablehead, doors on return to E by re-entrant angles. Tower to outer left (E) bay of N elevation, gabled baptistery bay with 2-light window to outer right of S elevation. Modern extension Session House, 1967, to SW. W ELEVATION: broad gable to centre with cusped wheel window above p

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.