St Andrew's Church, Church of Scotland, Blairgowrie

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 04/09/2003 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Burgh Blairgowrie And Rattray NGR NO 17683 45423 Coordinates 317683, 745423 — D and J R MacMillan, Aberdeen, 1902-04; stonemason McLeish; 1843 hall. Early English gothic church with 4-stage entrance tower and single stage polygonal stair tower; 3-bay aisled nave with dividing buttresses, transepts and apse. Red sandstone bull-faced rubble with polished ashlar dressings; snecked rubble to NE and NW. Raised base and eaves courses; dividing string courses to entrance tower. Single and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses; single stage polygonal clasping buttresses and full-height set-back buttresses to tower. Traceried and trefoil-headed windows. Hoodmoulds; corbels; raked cills, chamfered reveals and stone mullions. SE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: tall gabled elevation with traceried 7-light horizontal window at 1st stage, large hoodmoulded traceried window above and relief-carved cross in panel at gablehead (see Notes); gablet-coped buttress breaking eaves at outer right and giving way to low crenellated polygonal tower with set-back polygonal roof, hoodmoulded trefoil-headed doorpiece and part-glazed timber door with disabled access; small horizontal trefoil-headed bipartite window in square-headed panel close to eaves above and to 3 adjacent faces to right, 2 outer faces to right also with single window at 1st stage. ENTRANCE TOWER: engaged 1st stage with steps up to pinnacled buttresses flanking gabled porch at SW incorporating deeply-moulded decorative doorcase with paired attached colonnettes, and vaulted deep-set 2-leaf panelled timber door with timber-traceried, coloured glass toplights, hoodmould and decorative niche in finialled gablehead, and 2 narrow lights to SE giv

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.