South Free Church, Reform Street, Blairgowrie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/10/2002 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Blairgowrie And Rattray NGR NO 17891 45079 Coordinates 317891, 745079 — 1858. Gothic church with 6-bay nave and square 2-stage tower with octagonal spire. Small blocks of roughly squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, some stugged. Raised ashlar base course and eaves course. Sawtooth-coped, 2- and 3-stage buttresses; hoodmoulds with label stops. Trefoil- and multifoil-headed lights, some set into pointed-arch frames; traceried NE window. Chamfered reveals, stone mullions and raked cills. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges. NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: stone-finialled gabled elevation. Centre bay with steps up to deeply-moulded doorway with flanking engaged colonettes and 2-leaf doors under elaborate stepped hoodmould with trefoil moulding at each step and as blind arcade at apex, and flanking buttresses with moulded detail at 1st stage; broad, 3-part window above with wide 2-light traceried centre and glazed trefoil in gablehead. Flanking bays each with 2-light window in pointed-arch frame. Tower (see below) to outer right. TOWER: engaged 1st stage with moulded doorway to NE giving way to stepped and battered dividing course adjoining 3-stage angle buttresses. 2nd stage with narrow light at centre NE and narrow bipartite to NW giving way to corbelled, rectangular-plan, 2-part, louvered opening piercing mutuled cornice and rising into pedimented clock face at each elevation. Set-back, finialled octagonal spire with tiny fleche to alternate faces close to apex. SE ELEVATION: 5 regularly-disposed bays, each with tall 2-light window and dividing buttresses; voussoired, roll-moulded, pointed-arch doorway with flanking buttresses fo

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.