Auchterderran Parish Church, Woodend Road, Auchterderran

1789 transepts; nave (S aisle) and galleries added, and windows altered to lancets by William Constable 1891; Norman window (see Notes) re-sited in chancel 1891; flat-roofed extension earlier 20th century. 2-storey, cruciform-plan Church with birdcage bellcote and fleche. Dressed squared and snecked rubble with droved quoins; moulded eaves course, pointed and segmental-headed openings, hoodmould, chamfered reveals and traceried N and S windows.

W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: advanced gable to left of centre with 2-leaf timber door below small-pane, pointed fanlight and decorative hoodmould, window above and tall windows in flanking bays; cross- finialled open bellcote at gablehead: recessed bay to right with 2 tall windows and lower, blank recessed bay to left.

N ELEVATION: broad, ball-finialled gable with corniced, traceried window at centre and smaller window to right.

E ELEVATION: advanced gable to right of centre with window (converted door) at ground over memorial stone, further window above, tall windows in flanking bays and on return to left; recessed bay to left with 2 tall windows and small lean-to structure in re-entrant angle; recessed bay to right with 3 small windows over flat-roofed extension (initialled ?RF?) with timber door and window.

S ELEVATION: advanced gable with traceried window at centre, arrow slit above dated AD 1891 in gablehead.

Small-pane leaded glazing throughout, some coloured; stained glass (see below) to chancel and E transept (see below). Grey slates with decorative terracotta ridge tiles; timber-louvred and slated fleche, set on diagonal, with decorative terracotta finial. Ashlar coped skews and gablet skewputts.

INTERIOR: chancel to N with Norman window over timber panelled blind arcading reflected in designs of communion table, font, lectern and 2-stage pulpit with brass handrail; organ (Ingram & Co, 1907). Transepts and S aisle with fixed timber pews and panelled galleries, rounded at corners, with raked floors supported on sturdy cast-iron columns with moulded capitals. Boarded timber dado throughout.

Stained glass windows to N (Norman frame) ?The Good Shepherd and The Risen Lord? (1930), and 3 smaller commemorative windows of stylised foliage (c1890) to E of chancel; E transept with 2 full height windows by A Ballantine & Son, ?The Good Samaritan? (1905) and ?Sing We To The Lord? (1912) each giving way to coloured windowhead in gallery; glazed oculus to tracery of S window ?Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me? with centre lily and dove of peace.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: coped rubble boundary walls and coped, rusticated ashlar gatepiers to N; low saddleback-coped rubble and coped harl boundary walls with coped ashlar gatepiers to W. Decorative cast-iron gates and railings.