St Mungo's Church, 25 Mar Street, Alloa

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 09/11/2017 Local Authority Clackmannanshire Planning Authority Clackmannanshire Burgh Alloa NGR NS 88578 92858 Coordinates 288578, 692858 — Built in 1959 by the architects William Friskin and William Allan, St Mungo's Church is a rectangular basilican plan brick-built church with concrete dressings, close to the centre of Alloa. It is a stripped modern design inspired by Dutch modernism of the interwar period. It has a contemporary interior in keeping with the pared back geometrical design of the exterior with a number of quality fixtures and fittings, including a timber baldacchino, dalle de verre stained glass windows by Sadie McLellan and sculpture by Scott Sutherland. The asymmetrical gabled main entrance to the east has five slender windows and low flat roofed sections flanking a two-bay entrance porch. The north side has a square-plan squat tower with vertical strip mullions and louvered openings. At the base are a pair of entrance doors set back in an open porch. The nave and sacristy has tall narrow windows with shaped concrete margins. The lower flat roofed sections on the front elevation and the Lady Chapel have smaller round arched windows. There are decorative panelled and glazed entrance doors. There are metal framed windows with squared leaded opaque glazing and some opening pivots. The main roof has a shallow pitch behind a brick parapet wall. The smaller pitched roofs to the sacristy and Lady Chapel are slate with shallow angle overhanging eaves. There are cast iron hoppers and downpipes The church is set back from the street behind contemporary low coped walls with decorative wrought-iron railings and gates. The interior of the building was seen in 2017. The main space is an open basilican-plan in painted render with an angled ceil

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.