St Droston's Episcopal Church, Tarfside

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 11/06/1971 Last Date Amended 29/07/2025 Local Authority Angus Planning Authority Angus Parish Lochlee NGR NO 49124 79765 Coordinates 349124, 779765 — Episcopal Church (1878–9) in the 'Early English' style, built in Aberdeen-bond granite, designed by James Matthews and Alexander Marshall Mackenzie of Aberdeen, and a two-storey, three bay former parsonage (1810, remodelled in 1880 to designs by the Reverend Edward Sugden, with adjoining stable and coach house), located beside the Water of Tarf in the grounds of St Drostan's Episcopal Church. St Drostan's Church has an aisleless nave with corner buttressing, and a vestry and rounded apse at the east end and a porch at the west end. A granite Latin cross over the porch derives from the east gable of its predecessor (1810) building. There are also wrought iron crosses and one of stone on the ridge line. The bell is hung at a high level within a corbelled, semi-conical bellcote within the apex of the west gable. The interior has a marble-columned altar, an octagonal stone font, plain white walls and an exposed, king-post truss roof structure. In the apse are three lancet windows with coloured glass depicting Christ, St Andrew and St Peter. There is a former organ chamber in the apse chancel. The former parsonage has a slightly lower rear wing to the north, including an adjoining stable/coach block which is also stepped down slightly in height, forming an elongated L-plan. There is a detached laundry/washhouse to the east and a former byre/store outbuilding to the west. The front (south) elevation is of roughly coursed whinstone and granite, with reddish grey sandstone ashlar dressings and pair of projecting window bays to the ground floor. A timber door to centre has a slate-roofed porch recess with deco

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.