Baldernock Parish Church is a Grade B listed building in the East Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 September 1973. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Baldernock Parish Church
- WRENN ID
- grim-lantern-magpie
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- East Dunbartonshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 September 1973
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Baldernock Parish Church, built in 1795 with later additions, is a two-storey, rectangular-plan parish church that features a later addition to the north elevation, creating a T-plan layout. The church is constructed of squared sandstone rubble.
The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has three bays and includes an iron-railed forestair leading to a first-floor entrance with timber doors. There are also flanking single windows at the first floor.
The south elevation has four bays and features a central bell tower with an infilled entrance. An inscription reading "Deo Optimo Maximo! P.F.S. - Q.S MDCCXCV" is located beneath a pediment. The bell tower rises to a ball-finialed canopied bellcote that houses a bell from 1896. Tall arched windows flank the tower, with square-headed single windows in the outer bays.
The west elevation mirrors the east elevation with three bays.
The north elevation has single windows in the outer left and right sections. It also includes an advanced (later) vestry with timber eaves, a timber door with a letterbox fanlight, and single windows on either side of the re-entrant angle.
The church features timber sash and case windows, a pitched slate roof with straight skews, a square stack on the vestry, and a circular chimney.
Inside, the church has a corniced, timber-panelled central pulpit with a sound board, timber dado panelling, and a panelled timber gallery supported on timber columns, featuring a ribbed frieze and modillion cornice. The ceiling has a plain cornice. There are timber altar furnishings, a stone font, and memorial panels for the First and Second World Wars.
The graveyard surrounding the church contains predominantly 19th-century headstone graves. An octagonal-plan watchhouse, dated 1828, features a two-leaf timber door with a timber fanlight at the entrance and a single window with an apron on one elevation. It has a pyramidal slate roof and a polygonal stack. The site is enclosed by circular-plan stone gatepiers, two-leaf iron gates, and a coped rubble boundary wall, which includes mounting steps to the northeast section. A wall-mounted postbox marked 'G R' is also present.
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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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