St Catherine's Episcopal Church, George Street, Blairgowrie is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 October 1971. Church.
St Catherine's Episcopal Church, George Street, Blairgowrie
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- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1971
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Catherine's Episcopal Church, located on George Street in Blairgowrie, was designed by John Henderson from Edinburgh and completed in 1842. This rectangular-plan, aisless church features a three-bay nave and chancel, constructed from squared rubble with ashlar margins and quoin strips, and includes base and eaves courses. The church has a Tudor-arched doorway and pointed arch windows with tracery, complemented by hoodmoulds with label stops and stone mullions.
On the northwest elevation, there is a bay to the right of the center that includes a gabled stone porch. This porch has steps leading up to a studded timber door adorned with decorative ironwork hinges, and a weathered panel in the gablehead. Flanking this entrance are two tall, two-light traceried windows, and a re-cut panel that reads 'ST CATHARINE'S CHURCH 1842'. To the outer left, there is a lower gabled bay with a projecting traceried window.
The southwest elevation, facing Brown Street, features a broad gabled bay with five tall lancet windows and a stone cross finial. There is a slightly lower adjoining house on the outer right and a deep base course extending from a low boundary wall on the left.
On the northeast elevation, there is a gabled chancel projection topped with a stone cross finial, which includes a hoodmoulded three-light traceried stained glass window. To the right, there is a slightly set-back lower bay with a panelled timber door below a blind shield, and a small lean-to structure in the re-entrant angle to the left. The church has replacement multi-pane diamond-pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins and figurative panels in the east tripartite window, and is roofed with grey slates and stepped ashlar-coped skews.
Inside, the church features fixed timber pews and a four-centre arched wooden ceiling with ribs, along with a moulded chancel arch. The polygonal timber pulpit sits on a stone plinth and is decorated with linen-carved panels, an inscribed brass band, and narrow floreate-carved panels. Mural monuments include a carved panel depicting 'The Ascension' and a brass panel commemorating 'Marjory Davis', the wife of the sixth incumbent and first rector, who died in 1894.
The church is enclosed by low saddleback-coped squared rubble boundary walls that incorporate decorative cast-iron railings and a two-leaf gate.
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