St Mary's Church, Main Street, Aberfoyle

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 06/09/1979 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Parish Aberfoyle National Park Loch Lomond And The Trossachs NGR NN 52383 01010 Coordinates 252383, 701010 — Loch Lomond And Trossachs National Park Planning Authority St Mary's, built 1893-4, was designed by James Miller (see Notes) in a simple Gothic Arts and Crafts style, near-rectangular in plan, with a deep rubble base capped by a stringcourse, harled above with red sandstone dressings and small lancet windows. The church is located on a wooded knoll above the main street of the village. St Mary's is a small rural church of style, with a picturesque situation, and of little altered condition and streetscape value. The church is composed of a long rectangular aisleless nave, orientated E-W, with the principal (S) elevation facing over the main street below. This 5-bay elevation has 2 gabled projections, to the far left a small timber-framed porch with cusped timber framed windows, and just to the left of the chancel bay, a larger projection with a simple plate tracery window of 2 lancets and a roundel above; this bay houses the organ chamber within. To the roof above, over the chancel arch, is gable-roofed open belfry. The W gable features a plate-tracery window of 3 lancets and a roundel above, while the E (chancel) gable has a segmentally arched rectangular window with 4 lancet lights.The rear (N) elevation is purposefully plain, 5-bay with a lean-to roofed vestry projecting at the left side. Interior: The church is entered by a 2-leaf timber-panelled and glazed door with leaded quarries and a fleur-de-lys motif to the centre. Some of the windows have 20th century stained glass. The interior is plastered with a 4-bay arch-braced, king post roof, the ceiling is lined by timber spa

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.