St John The Baptist's Church, Princes Street, Perth

John, William Hardie and James Murdoch Hay of Liverpool, 1851 with additions by Andrew Granger Heiton, 1914 (see Notes). Greek cruciform, Mid-Pointed Gothic church with tower with octagonal stone spire to northwest at nave and transept re-entrant angle on prominent corner site. Stugged and squared rubble with ashlar dressings. Raised in-and-out quoins. Large traceried windows with hoodmoulds to north, east and west elevations.

Tower: angled buttresses and steeply stepped offsets; engaged octagonal turret to northeast angle; blind arcading beneath belfry stage; louvred bipartite openings to belfry; dogtoothed cornice; broached and lucarned spire; cast-iron cruciform finial.

West Elevation: timber pointed-arch door with hoodmould with shield-bearing angels forming stops. Later castellated porch at northwest re-entrant angle; inside, two-leaf timber entrance door to north side of nave with pelican and eagle carved stops to hoodmould.

Plain addition to northeast angle. Octagonal turret at southwest corner of south transept. Ground floor glass linking corridor to south accessing No 32-36 Princes Street (see LB39592).

Grey slate. Stepped skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.

Interior: impressive hammerbeamed and collar-braced timber ceiling with moulded corbel detailing. Carved stone pulpit; chancel arch; altar with altar railings; bishop's chair; eagle lectern; timber screen with vine frieze. Organ. Fine collection of 14th century style stained glass windows.