Perth Congregational Church, Kinnoull Street

Steel and Balfour, Glasgow 1897-99. 5-bay, gabled and buttressed Scots Gothic church, situated on prominent corner site with integral single-bay, 2-storey hall to W. Bull-faced red sandstone with smooth buttresses and margins. Base course, band courses, hoodmoulding. Elevations to N and S with large, 2-light tracery windows with stone mullions and transoms. Other lancet windows to gables. Polygonal, finialled fleche to roof. S elevation with buttresses breaking eaves and advanced single-storey gabled section to far right.

MAIN ELEVATION TO E (KINNOULL STREET): Symmetrical. Part crow-stepped gable. Central 2-leaf timber entrance door with multi-pane glazing above in deep-set moulded doorway with cross finial at apex. Large, 6-light geometric-tracery window above. Lancet window openings to ground. 3-light arcaded window openings to upper section of outer bays with colonettes. Pinnacled corner buttresses.

CHURCH HALL: internally linked to church. Timber entrance door to right. 3-light window opening to ground with stone mullions and transoms. 3-light tracery window to upper storey. Ball finialled corner buttresses.

Predominantly leaded clear glass to windows. Green slates with red ridge tiles.

INTERIOR: (seen, 2009). Fine original decorative scheme. Vaulted ceiling to aisles with arches springing from decorative corbels. Timber pews and panelled horseshoe gallery. Cast-iron columns; those at gallery level with decorated foliage capitals. Decorative timber pulpit with stairs and en suite organ case. Panelled timber doors. Stone staircases with decorative metal balusters and timber banisters.