Free Church, 124-126 High Street, Dunblane

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Category C Date Added 05/09/1989 Supplementary Information Updated 17/10/2002 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Burgh Dunblane NGR NN 78279 01295 Coordinates 278279, 701295 — 1853-4. 2-storey, 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled church with prominent full-height semi-circular-arched bipartite windows. Red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar sandstone margins. Base course meeting rising ground. Long and short quoins. Coped, shouldered gables. S (PRINCIPAL): gabled bay to left; segmentally-arched entrance, cavetto moulded to reveals, timber panelled door; flanked by narrow windows; large moulded panel above dated 1843; tall, semicircular-arched, stone mullioned, bipartite gallery window; louvered ventilation slit to gablehead. Full-height semicircular-arched, stone mullioned and transomed, bipartite windows to centre bay and gabled bay to right, louvered ventilation slit to gablehead. N (REAR) ELEVATION: not seen 2001. E (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end. W (SIDE) ELEVATION: blind gable end. Partially blocked, modern steel frame, fixed pane windows. Grey slates, lead flashing. Cast-iron rainwater goods. Truncated gable stacks. INTERIOR: remodelled 1947; dividing floor inserted. — Decommissioned ecclesiastic building. An unusual composition consisting of a basic store or warehouse structure elaborately fenestrated to one side. Though the building is dated 1843 this refers to the formation of the body of the Dunblane Free Church not the erection of the present building in 1853. The first Free Church building was opened for worship in November, 1843 and stood behind the old Free Church School, currently the Territorial Army offices. The present church was erected in 1853 to meet the needs of a growing congregation. The congregation had initially met on the How

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.