Abbey Parish Church, West Abbey Street, Arbroath

James MacLaren of Dundee, 1876-8, incorporating and

re-modelling 1797 church and with tower added at north end

of new west front. Gothic. All built of red sandstone with

polished dressings. Original building rectangular-plan with

gabled roof and altered openings, full-width addition to

west long wall (ie to West Abbey Street), shallow on plan

with steep piended roof, big traceried windows in shallow

advanced buttressed and pinnacled central gable; square tower

has chamfered angles, pointed openings and slated facetted

and lucarned squat spire with finial.

Iron-railed low boundary wall to West Abbey Street and

gabletted gatepiers.

CHURCH HALLS: there are 2 halls;

a) that to East Abbey Street is late Georgian, single storey,

piended, with symmetrical 9 (3+3+3)-bay front elevation;

painted ashlar; slated roof.

b) Hall to south of church is presumably by MacLaren and has

gable with 3 stepped hood-moulded lights to West Abbey

Street.