1-14 Strathearn Court, Park Road, Grangemouth is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 August 1992. Church. 3 related planning applications.
1-14 Strathearn Court, Park Road, Grangemouth
- WRENN ID
- solitary-lintel-torch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1992
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
This is an Arts and Crafts church built between 1900 and 1903 by John Benie Wilson for the United Presbyterian congregation. The church is constructed of red bull-faced sandstone and is a simple rectangular plan oriented north-south. It features a galleried interior and Early English style windows, including lancet and plate-traceried designs. The lower and upper gallery levels are lit by three-light rectangular windows. The building has a rubble plinth and a steeply pitched grey slated roof with shallow catslide skylights to the west and east, red clay ridge tiles, and masonry Celtic cross finials.
A prominent, slightly battered, square-plan entrance tower is located at the northwest corner, with an octagonal northeast angle turret. A pointed arched entrance leads from Park Road to the west, with a single lancet window above, followed by a string course marking the belfry upper stage. Wall buttresses clasp the angles at the belfry stage, and single pointed arched belfry openings with Y-tracery face each side. Wall buttresses rise above the wallhead and are coped to resemble crenellations, topped with a red-tiled bellcast pyramid roof, with swept eaves between the crenellations and a leaded apex finial.
The west elevation features the tower to the left, with two nave bays set back at the centre and a taller, transeptal gabled bay slightly projecting to the right. This projecting bay has a large, overarched, stepped triple lancet at the upper level, mirroring the design found on the south (liturgical east) and east elevations. An entrance porch is slightly set back to the right, in front of a short chancel projection, providing access to the church and a vestry and hall.
The north frontage, facing Ronaldshays Crescent, has a tall nave gable with two windows, with the tower slightly set back to the right. A polygonal, two-stage staircase projection is located in front of the tower. An entrance bay is set back to the left and contains a segmental-arched entrance with original two-leaf doors, with the upper sections glazed and multi-paned.
The interior has a polychrome effect, with cream polished ashlar wall planes and red polished ashlar voussoits to the pointed arcades over the galleries. The gallery fronts are canted and pierced with simple cusped trefoils. A clock that was previously in the north gallery front has been removed, and the galleries are supported on cast-iron columns with raked seating. A chancel screen is present within the chancel arch, although the organ and most of the other furniture were removed in 1992. The chancel recess is stenciled with gold stars on a blue background, likely dating to around 1950. The original pews have been stripped and are now of pitched pine. The roof is timber barrel-vaulted, with diagonally-boarded panels, tie-braces with cusped decoration. A single-storey church hall is linked to the south, with grey slated pitched roof and an ornate ridge fleche, featuring timber louvres decorated with cusping and a tall slated pyramid roof. The hall's west elevation is single-storey with a gable to the left, an asymmetrical wallhead stack, and a tripartite window to the right.
The interior of the hall features a deep, straight-coved boarded roof and timber arched braces. A single stained glass window, with a coloured glass floral swag motif set in clear leaded glass, is present on the south side.
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