Tundergarth Parish Church

Churchyard enclosing 1900 parish church by James Barbour and

roofless shell of 1770 old church.

PARISH CHURCH: Gothic; basically rectangular-plan, 3 bays

with square tower at SW, gabled organ-chamber in shallow E

jamb opposite. Roughly coursed rubble with ashlar dressings,

tower and S gable harled.

TOWER: door in re-entrant angle, W-facing window lights

vestry at lower level; louvred and traceried opening each

face of upper level, and simple parapet with birdcage belfry

over one angle.

BODY OF CHURCH: gabled timber canopy over paired doors at N

end of W wall; elementary perpendicular tracery, jamb with

rose window; single window to each gable; string at cill

level. Saw-toothed skews and slated roof with projecting

eaves.

INTERIOR: octagonal pulpit with panelled front and decorative

canopy; carved, open timbered roof on shaped corbels; leaded

windows in either gable and on E wall, 2 of these by Swaine

Bourne & Son, Birmingham and London (signed).

CHURCHYARD: enclosed by rubble-built ashlar-coped walls; 2

coped, square, polished ashlar gatepiers with wrought-iron

gates (earlier gateway to W of lattice); some good 17th-19th

century stone monuments; rubble built shed (former watch

house?).

OLD PARISH CHURCH: abandoned 1900; T-plan, with 4-bay S

elevation, central door on each gable; rubble-built with

ashlar margins, now heavily overgrown: circa 1907 canopied

Gothic monument on site of pulpit, red ashlar, moulded arch

with cusping and ogee head.