St Michael's Hall, Church Street, Crieff

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/10/1971 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Crieff NGR NN 86573 21519 Coordinates 286573, 721519 — Begun 1786, completed by William Stirling 1827. Large 5-bay, rectangular-plan, piend-roofed former church with crenellated, 4-stage, centre tower. Harled. Band courses to tower. Round-headed windows. S (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. Tower (see below) projecting to centre bay, flanking bays each with tall window, tall narrow light to outer left and smaller narrow square-headed window to outer right with further round-headed window over. TOWER: 1st stage with 2-leaf boarded timber square-headed door and 5-part fanlight, and small window to 2nd stage; 3rd stage with taller windows to S, E and W giving way to taller 4th stage with louvered bipartite openings to each elevation. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf boarded timber door to centre with tall lights to flanking bays. E ELEVATION: square-headed, asymmetrical fenestration to each floor. N ELEVATION: largely blank elevation with door and adjacent small window to outer left. Stylised multi-pane glazing patterns in timber windows. Grey slates. Coped and shouldered brick stack to E. INTERIOR: altered (see Notes); boarded dadoes retained. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. St Michaels Churchyard and boundary walls are listed separately. Formerly Crieff Parish Church, and built on the site of an earlier church of St Michael in the walls of which were found forty Robert I gold coins. Groome describes the current building as "the plain East church, with an ill-designed bell-tower". In 1882 the building became St Michael's church hall, when the new church was built in Strathearn Terrace, and subsequently a community hall in the late 20th century.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.