Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/09/1987 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Burgh Arbroath NGR NO 64345 41212 Coordinates 364345, 741212 — James MacLaren of Dundee, 1876-8, incorporating and re-modelling 1797 church and with tower added at north end of new west front. Gothic. All built of red sandstone with polished dressings. Original building rectangular-plan with gabled roof and altered openings, full-width addition to west long wall (ie to West Abbey Street), shallow on plan with steep piended roof, big traceried windows in shallow advanced buttressed and pinnacled central gable; square tower has chamfered angles, pointed openings and slated facetted and lucarned squat spire with finial. Iron-railed low boundary wall to West Abbey Street and gabletted gatepiers. CHURCH HALLS: there are 2 halls; a) that to East Abbey Street is late Georgian, single storey, piended, with symmetrical 9 (3+3+3)-bay front elevation; painted ashlar; slated roof. b) Hall to south of church is presumably by MacLaren and has gable with 3 stepped hood-moulded lights to West Abbey Street. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Original contractors: John Shanks, Mason, Alexander Macfarlane, Wright; John Dorward, Slater; James Key, Plasterer.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.