Avoch Parish Church, Braehead, Avoch

Avoch Parish Church, built between 1870 and 1872 by Alexander Ross, is oriented east to west. The church features a large Decorated Gothic window on the west gable, with three small quatrefoil lights positioned below it. The east side has a rose window set in a pointed opening, flanked by two narrow lancets beneath. There are four buttressed bays of lancets along the sides, with a vestry located at the northeast. The steeple has a unique broached form, with a gabled belfry stage and small lucarnes above. The base of the tower serves as a porch, with piers that have stiff leaf capitals and carved beasts flanking the doorway. The church is constructed from dressed red sandstone rubble, featuring pale ashlar dressings that are either polished or stugged and broached.

Inside, the church retains original red pine fittings and a braced collar roof. The west window contains stained glass by Barnett of Newcastle. In the vestry, there is a pre-Reformation stone Sacrament House inset in the wall, measuring 4 feet 2.5 inches by 2 feet 7 inches overall. It features a chalice in the central label and a cupboard below with a renewed door and lining, but with earlier hinges, measuring 1 foot 10 inches by 1 foot 2 inches deep, all framed with bead and hollow moulding.