Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch

Alexander Ross 1870-1872.

Orientated east/west with large Decorated Gothic window west

gable and 3 small quatrefoil lights below.

East rose window set in pointed opening with 2 narrow

lancets below. 4 Buttressed bays of lancets at flanks

with vestry at NE. Steeple of idiosyncratic broached form;

gabletted belfry stage and small lucarnes above. Base of

tower forms porch, its piers having stiff leaf capitals,

those flanking doorway also having carved beasts. Dressed red

sandstone rubble; pale ashlar dressings, either polished or

stugged and broached. Interior has original fittings of red

pine and braced collar roof.

Stained glass: west window by Barnett of Newcastle.

Inside vestry, inset in wall, a pre-Reformation stone

Sacrament House measuring 4'2 1/2" x 2'7" overall, with

chalice in central label and cupboard below with renewed door

and lining, but earlier hinges, measuring 1'10" x 1'2" deep,

the whole framed with bead and hollow moulding.