St Augustine’s Episcopal Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 08/09/1980 Local Authority West Dunbartonshire Planning Authority West Dunbartonshire Burgh Dumbarton NGR NS 39690 75254 Coordinates 239690, 675254 — Robert Rowand Anderson of Edinburgh, architect. Dated 1873 on parsonage. 8-bay, aisled, Gothic church. Principal gabled elevation to High Street: polished ashlar (remainder stugged with polished dressings): central recessed door with splayed reveals, under moulded pointed arch, large hood-moulded and geometrical-traceried window above, with circular panels in spandrels and hood-moulded vesica in gable-head; angle buttresses, saw-tooth skews and cross finial. Low square extension to left with plate-traceried window, similar window and door in re-entrant angle; geometrical-traceried and hoodmoulded aisle window to right. Clerestory windows have pointed heads, paired over nave. Interior: (planned decoration gradually completed) chancel, nave and north aisle arcaded, aisle with circular and octagonal columns; chancel arch on clustered columns. Delicate, elaborately carved, cusped and traceried chancel screen with central gable; altar rails have carved angels on gate posts. Altar and reredos dedicated 1893; war memorial by R M MacNaught of Denny & Blain, circa 1923. Some leaded glass windows; in eastern aisle, window by W Gibbs (in poor repair) at northern end, window by Stephen Adam, 1897 in western aisle at south end. Timbered roof. — Listed category A for quality of interior. Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Former parsonage and hall by A C Denny, architect (Dumbarton), 1907, demolished in 1993.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.