Knox U.F. Church and Church Hall, Mill Street, Montrose

1. Pointed arch church with adjacent and connecting vestry. 2-storey, triple-gable sandstone ashlar frontage with pinnacles, squared and ladder-pinned to sides and rear. Approximately square plan. Battered base course and moulding, cornice above ground floor. Splayed margins, battered cills.

W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical. 3 gables divided by buttresses rising to gablets and pinnacles. Centre gable; 2 circular windows at ground with quatrefoil tracery, 3 stepped windows with hoodmoulds above, small circular quatrefoil window in gablehead, stone cross finial. Outer gables; doorway at ground, hoodmould, 2-leaf doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Window with hoodmould above. Angle buttresses with gablets flanking.

S ELEVATION: 3 windows off-set to right.

N ELEVATION: 3 windows off-set to left, vestry adjoining at ground.

E ELEVATION: centre gable advanced; 2 windows with trefoil tracery and circular window above with quatrefoil tracery. Gables of aisles set back, that to left blank with later brick built lean-to at ground. That to right with vestry attached at ground. Single pitch roof, pointed arch window and plain window and door in return.

HALL AND SESSION HOUSE:

W ELEVATION: entrance arch with quatrefoil to right, connecting wing to church set back, pointed arch window, door to left in S face of hall. Session House to left with canted apsidal frontage, pointed arch windows with trefoil heads, that to centre a bipartite with quatrefoil head. Buttress to left.

All windows with intact stained glass and leaded lights. Grey slate pitched roofs, stone skews.

INTERIOR: remarkably fine and intact decorations and furnishing predominantly original and from the 1878 redecoration. Numbered box pews, galler with mouldings, panels and timber compound columns. Timber barrel vaulted ceiling with ribs rising from columns. Grand pulpit with ornate wrought-iron and brass balustrade to ascending stairs. Stained glass from 1878 (See Notes). Organ pipes in gothic case flanking cast windows. Timber panelled coving to hall, session room now used as kitchen.

GATES AND RAILINGS: simple wrought-iron railings in front of vestry, wrought-iron gates with crocketed finial decoration to S side.