St Kessog's Church, Ancaster Square, Callander

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 06/09/1979 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Burgh Callander National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NN 62872 07947 Coordinates 262872, 707947 — Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority 1883 Robert Baldie. Square-plan church designed in the Early Gothic Pointed Style. The church occupies the site of the former 1773 local parish church. Set prominently to the N side of Ancaster Square facing S towards the Main Street. A confidently designed and well executed church with an impressive central tall steepled entrance. The gabled entrance to the principal (S) elevation is reached by a series of steps. The forecourt in front of the church including the steps were landscaped in 1990 at the time of the church's conversion to a visitor centre. The tower rises above the entrance and is buttressed at the corners, a clock face is set to 3 sides of the tower. A slender well articulated spire rises from above the clock stage with conical finials close-packed to its base. The belfry is located at the base of the spire with gabled plate tracery windows (with timber louvers). The spire is crowned by what appears to be a ship weather-vane. The tower is flanked by single bays arranged internally as vestibules giving access to the upper part of the church, each has a long shafted lancet window. The setback gabled main body of the church extends some way out, each has a quatrefoil set above a paired shafted lancet window. The side W and E elevations have 3 gabled bays, each with 3 lancet windows above and below the former gallery level. To the rear is a gabled sanctuary with an adjoined lean-to outshot built in 1900 to house the organ chamber. Interior At the time of the church's conversion the main body of the church was gu

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.