Tealing Parish Church And Churchyard

Tealing Parish Church is a hall-church of 1806, with later additions and alterations. In 1895, Alexander Johnston undertook internal changes. Porches and a vestry were added, and most windows were replaced and reduced in size, except for the large windows on the south elevation. The church is rectangular in plan, built of rubble with ashlar dressings. The eastern gable is harled, and the roof is covered with grey slate. The windows are square-headed with margined surrounds, using timber top-hopper frames with small rectangular leaded panes. Skew blocks and coped skews are present.

The north elevation has three bays. A single-storey vestry projects centrally, featuring a bipartite window and a half-piended roof. A carved panel depicting paired angels sits above at gallery level. Steps lead to a basement heating chamber to the left, with cast-iron railings. A lean-to entrance porch is located at the right, forming a re-entrant angle. Windows are present at both ground and gallery levels along the main wall plane of the outer bays, and a central wallhead stack is visible.

The south elevation consists of four bays. A large polished granite memorial slab commemorates the Scrymsoure Fothringham family, situated above an earlier sculpted sandstone memorial. It is flanked by two elongated windows with lying panes, set within an ashlar enclosure with cast-iron railings. Windows are also present at ground and gallery levels at the outer bays.

The east gable includes a central entrance porch with a half-piended roof and a window. A door is at the left return. A window is situated at gallery level, with a boarded oculus above.

The west gable is similar to the east, with a pyramidal bellcote at the apex, containing a bell. The window lintel is inscribed with an indecipherable date, believed to be 1806.

Inside, an original pulpit is located on the south wall. A panelled, semi-octagonal gallery with timber Doric columns is present. A timber floor and dado were added, with pews and pulpit stairs replaced in 1895 by Alexander Johnston, though the floor was partially removed and pews stored in the 1980s. The interior features pale yellow/green stained glass. A notable collection of sculpted and inscribed stones is housed within, including the tombstone of Ingram of Kethenys, a priest at Tealing and archdeacon of Dunkeld, who died in 1380. A piece of an early 16th century sacrament house, depicting Christ and two angels, was removed from the west gable in 1895. A memorial to John Ramsay, a priest at Tealing and archdeacon of Dunkeld, who died in 1618, is also present, depicting a kneeling figure holding an open book on a lectern, within paired fluted pilasters and a heraldic pediment. Another stone, commemorating John Ramsay and his wife Elizabeth Kinloch, was also removed from the church floor in 1895. Late Georgian marble memorials on the south wall commemorate William Forsyth (died 1814) and Patrick Scrymsoure (died 1815).

The churchyard is enclosed by a rubble boundary wall on the north, south, east, and west sides, with plain gatepiers at the north. A variety of high-quality sculpted tombstones from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries are located within the churchyard.