Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perth Road, Pitlochry

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Perth Road, Pitlochry

This simple gabled gothic church in the decorated manner was designed by Charles Buckeridge RIBA of Oxford and completed in 1858. It comprises a four-bay nave with centre aisle, a lower chancel, and a stone bellcote. The building is constructed of roughly coursed squared rubble with stugged and droved quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring a base course and eaves cornice. Windows are trefoil-headed and bipartite, set within pointed arch voussoired openings with tracery and hoodmoulds. Stone mullions with chamfered reveals and buttresses complete the external detailing.

The southwest principal elevation features a centre bay with a pitch-roofed porch beneath a stone cross finial, flanked by squat single-stage sawtooth-coped clasping buttresses. The porch has a flagstone floor, stone side benches, and a studded timber door with decorative ironwork hinges. Bipartite windows occupy the broad flanking bays. A narrow light in the set-back chancel and the bellcote with decorative cast-iron finial mark the junction of nave and chancel. The northwest elevation is gabled with a three-light traceried window. The southeast elevation, gabled at the chancel end, features a three-light traceried window and a lower link with door and flanking narrow lights to the right. The northeast elevation displays bipartite windows to each nave bay.

The roof is covered in grey slates with ashlar-coped skews and overhanging eaves. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers serve the building.

The interior is largely unaltered, retaining fixed timber pews, a tiled floor, and a hammerbeam roof. The chancel contains a reredos by Sir Ninian Comper dating to 1893, featuring a memorial to Canon and Mrs Howard depicting Our Lord appearing to Mary Magdalene with flanking doors concealing symbols of the passion. An organ was installed in 1903. A polygonal oak pulpit dates to 1908. Mural tablets include a simple marble First World War memorial.

The stained glass includes a Crucifixion to the east window by C E Kempe, completed in 1906 as a memorial to William A Atkinson. The north Sanctuary window, "I am the Good Shepherd", was created by Ballantine & Sons Edinburgh in 1911, while the south Sanctuary window, "My peace I give unto you", is by Clayton and Bell. Memorial windows in the nave include "St Catherine and St Agnes" from 1877 in memory of Amy G Whitchurch, and "St Margaret and St Aidan", donated by Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough in 1920 in memory of their residence at Atholl Palace during the First World War. The west window, "St Luke flanked by St Adamnan and St Margaret", was created by A L Russell of Dundee in 1956.

Wardrop & Anderson undertook alterations in 1887. The southwest bay was added in 1890 by John Leonard of Pitlochry, who also designed the church hall in 1903. The hall is constructed of slated rubble with a gable to the northwest featuring a bipartite window below a trefoil window in an oculus panel, and a decoratively finialled gablehead with tall timber-louvered ridge vent. A slightly setback lower link bay adjoins the chancel to the right, with a blank elevation to the northeast.

A lychgate was erected in 1921 in memory of Frederick Thomas Forster of Faskally and Queensbury, Yorkshire, a Major in the 2nd W Y PWO-WRU-Yeomanry and JP. Designed as a simple gabled stone-arch structure with battered sides, it features a segmental-arched barrel soffit and stone slabbed roof. The squared and snecked rubble construction includes corbels and voussoirs. A bronze plaque with Celtic Cross and Latin inscription (Psalm 121 v8) is mounted above a two-leaf timber gate with decorative ironwork cresting facing southwest. Recessed bays for trees occupy the northwest and southwest positions. Carved sandstone bands to the inner walls record the donor's details and dates of birth and death (15th December 1851 to 15th August 1921), noting that the lychgate was erected by his brothers and sisters.

The graveyard contains a predominance of simple and Celtic cross memorials, including those of John Henry Dixon and Robert Watson-Watt. Coped rubble boundary walls enclose the site.