St Columba's Episcopal Church, Perth Road, Stanley

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 09/05/2002 Local Authority Perth And Kinross Planning Authority Perth And Kinross Parish Redgorton NGR NO 10772 33024 Coordinates 310772, 733024 — Speirs & Company, Glasgow, 1898. Small, rectangular-plan, aisless timber church with 4-bay nave and steeply-pitched roof, in English half-timbered style. Boarded timber. Cusped, timber-mullioned windows. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gabled porch to outer left with 2-leaf, trefoil-headed timber door and decorative ironwork door furniture, narrow flanking lights and tripartite window to each return; 4-light windows to 2 centre bays and further bipartite to outer right. E ELEVATION: broad gabled elevation with stepped 5-light window and timber cross-finial. N ELEVATION: outer left bay with gabled projection with tripartite window and timber door on right return, 4-light windows to 2 centre bays and bipartite to outer right abutting small lean-to timber projection. W ELEVATION: part-blocked 3-light window to gabled elevation abutting rectangular-plan, rubble church hall (see Notes). Multi-pane leaded glazing pattern, some coloured and margined. Graded grey slates. Coped ashlar stack; overhanging eaves and plain bargeboarding. INTERIOR: original interior with open-timbered roof, boarded dadoes and raised chancel with altar rails. Fine canopied rector's chair; altar with Dossal reredos; octagonal stone font. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Haynes mentions a 'tall fleche' but only the base remains. During the late 19th century an influx of mill workers from England, all of whom were required to attend church on Sundays in order to retain their employment at the Stanley Mills, escalated the need for an Episcopalian Church. The building of St Columba's commenced in 1897, at which time services were held in t

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.