St Fergus's Church, Kirkwynd, Glamis

Dated 1792 and significantly altered in 1933 with the addition of a chancel, St Fergus’s Church is a plain, rectangular-plan, aisleless church with a classical bell-tower spire. The church is constructed of squared and snecked rubble with dressed ashlar quoins. It features round-headed openings, a deeply-chamfered hoodmoulded doorway, Y-tracery, and stone mullions.

The west elevation is dominated by a four-stage tower projecting centrally from the otherwise blank gabled elevation. The tall first stage has a hoodmoulded, round-headed doorway with a deep-set studded boarded timber door, a round-headed window, and carved stone with a mutuled cornice above. A slightly reduced second stage features a clock on each face, leading to a further reduced octagonal third stage (bell chamber) with round-headed arcading (alternately blind and louvered). Above this is an octagonal spire topped with a fish weathervane.

The east elevation includes a three-light traceried window projecting from the centre of the chancel, flanked by round-headed lights on canted returns. The south elevation has three large traceried windows. The central window is blocked with a small pitch-roofed projecting porch, with blocked tracery visible above. The outer bays feature square-headed windows on each floor, with a further, similar window to the left at ground level. The north elevation displays two large traceried windows flanking a blank centre bay, along with a small square-headed ground floor window to the left and similar windows in the outer bays, aligned with the gallery.

The church has multi-pane, leaded and margined windows, with stained glass in the east windows of the north and south elevations. The roof is covered in grey slates, with stepped ashlar skew blocks and square skewputts.

The interior was refurbished in 1933 and includes a gallery, fixed timber pews with carved ends, a finely carved gallery, a parquet floor, a panelled ceiling, and boarded timber dadoes. A wide chancel arch leads to a raised chancel with fixed elders' chairs and a fretwork organ screen. Marble memorial tablets are located on the west wall. Stained glass in the north windows is by Gordon Webster, dating to 1969, and is dedicated to Matthew Babington B D. The south windows contain stained glass; the left light is a memorial to “John and Anne Milne of Holemill, Glamis”, and the right light was “erected by their daughters Elisabeth, Helen, Johanna and Charlotte.”

A circa 1840 session house, with later additions, is a small, single-storey building with a piend-roofed slate covering, rubble construction, dressed ashlar quoins, and a four-pane glazing pattern in timber sash and case windows. The north (entrance) elevation features a boarded timber door with a four-pane fanlight to the left of centre, a window to the right, and a further timber door to the outer right under a catslide roof.