St Ninian's Church, Bank Street, Brechin

1875-6 William Leiper (Glasgow). Tall simple distinctive

Normandy gothic. Snecked rubble with polished dressings. 5

bays aisled without clerestory, gable front with flanking

transeptal features containing stairs and octagonal spirelet

on left with open top stage. Boldly moulded doorpiece and 2

windows over with 2 orders of shafts, sculptured capitals,

vesica window above and finial at apex. Transeptal features

flush with 2 light plain circle plate tracery, rest of nave

has twin lancets. Lower transverse hall at rear with

over-arched twin lancet. Slated roof on bracketed eaves

swept down over aisles, 1 dormer ventilator each bay near

ridge.