Lundie Parish Church

Church with Romanesque core, partially rebuilt 1846, renovated Thomas Saunders Robertson 1892, including addition of porch and new bellcote; apse removed and neo-classical Duncan Mausoleum erected, Robert Mylne, dated 1789 (now converted to vestry). Coursed squared rubble, random rubble at W gable, slate roof; mausoleum, diagonally droved ashlar, polished panels, channelled ashlar domical roof. Pointed windows and door to S elevation of nave, chamfered jambs, moulded heads and blocked springing joints. Deep eaves.

S ELEVATION: 6-bay, symmetrical. Gabled porch 2nd bay from left (masking door), pointed window, round arched moulding above with chevron pattern, basket-arched door to right return; window to left, 2 windows to right, door and further window to far right.

W GABLE; blank, buttress to centre.

N ELEVATION: basement to centre with steps, coped wall with iron railings and gate, chimneybreast rising through eaves becoming square-section corniced stack; narrow round-headed window to left, blocked coal hole below; blocked window to far left.

E GABLE: ashlar birdcage bellocte, bell, ball-finialled pyramidal roof and decorative weathercock.

FORMER MAUSOLEUM: square-plan; door with wide corniced jambs in round-headed panel to left return, inscribed corniced lintel, fanlight, intrados and sunken panels, blank round-headed panels to N and E, cornice near wallhead, ashlar domical roof with drum at crown.

INTERIOR: boarded walls and embrasures, continuous timber hoodmould over windows, timber dentilled cornice, compartmentalised boarded ceiling; fragment of sacrament house inset in N wall; narrow round-headed (Norman?) window at N wall with deeply splayed reveals, wrought-iron memorial to John Robert Lester, minister 1953-77; stained glass memorial window to Hunter family of Easter Keith, 1897, war memorial on N wall; brass panel commemorating renovation of church in 1892 on W wall; framed texts from psalms and the Lord's Prayer on plaques (Stalker and Boyd, Dundee, 1892) flanking door to vestry at E wall; hexagonal, pilastered and panelled timber pulpit on plinth; stone columnar font..

DUNCAN BURIAL ENCLOSURE: tombs of the Duncan family and others adjoining former mausoleum to E enlcosed by low coped wall with wrought-iron railings.

CHURCHYARD, WALL AND GATEPIERS: 18th, 19th and 20th century tombstones; rubble churchyard wall approximately 2 metres high, partly drystane, snecked to S; 2 ashlar gatepiers to E with mannered caps.