Church Hall, Gardner Memorial Church, Southesk Street, Brechin

The Church Hall at Gardner Memorial Church on Southesk Street in Brechin was built between 1896 and 1900 by Sir J J Burnet. It features a Free Gothic style that incorporates mixed Romanesque and late Gothic elements, characterized by its low, intimate proportions. The building is constructed from snecked rubble with red sandstone dressings and is situated at a corner site, with the church and hall arranged at right angles. The church runs east to west, with a southeast tower bay that includes a gallery, and an apsidal stair turret located at the northeast bay. The nave consists of three bays, leading to a one-bay sanctuary. The north aisle is nearly the same height as the nave, while the hall range extends north from the tower, facing St Ninian's Square, and features a cloister on the west side that leads to a grassed court at the angle of the church.

The tower has bold, squat proportions and is divided into three stages. The eastern face features the lower two stages integrated within a neo-Norman arch, adorned with Gothic sculptures in the spandrel panel. The belfry stage has two pairs of two-light openings supported by two orders of shafts with sculptured capitals, topped by a deep corbelled parapet and a slated pyramid roof with a circular turret that transitions to an octagonal shape at the northwest angle. The flanking gallery stair projection has a canted front with shafted angles and single lancets, along with a deep plain parapet. The flank of the church facing Damacre Road is marked by a pinnacled buttress at the tower and four bays of paired lancets beneath a broad-eaved bracketed roof.

The hall range includes a vestibule that opens off the transe, serving both the church and the hall. The eastern frontage facing St Ninian's Square features a richly arched doorway with two orders—an inner sculptured arch and an outer cusped one—along with niched jambs. Above the doorway is a stepped parapet with a rich late Gothic niche and art-nouveau wrought-iron gates. There are also three square-headed three-light windows, a doorway raised in the parapet, and a buttressed gable front of the north hall with three stepped lancets and a tall roof beneath a deep plain parapet. The west courtyard side showcases an open cloister with a roof supported by cantilevered radial struts from corbels on the west wall of the hall. The north hall features a gable front with an oriel window and a half-timbered gable. Inside, the notable features include a low round-arched arcade supported by short cylindrical piers and open timber collar-braced roofs, highlighted by a bold rood beam in the sanctuary.