St Paul's Episcopal Church, Muirs, Kinross is a Grade B listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 May 2002. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Paul's Episcopal Church, Muirs, Kinross
- WRENN ID
- worn-hall-vermeil
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Perth and Kinross
- Constituency
- Perth and Kinross-shire MP: Pete Wishart (SNP)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 9 May 2002
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St Paul's Episcopal Church, Muirs, Kinross, KY13 8AU
- OS grid reference
- NO 117 030
- Coordinates
- 56.21144, -3.42492
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Paul's Episcopal Church, built in 1875, is a Gothic-detailed church of a squat, rectangular plan with an aisless nave, a north transept, and a distinctive four-stage polygonal belltower. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced rubble with ashlar dressings. A deep ashlar base course, moulded cill course, and eaves course are present. Pointed-arch openings are hoodmoulded, featuring human and animal-head label stops, raked cills, stepped chamfered reveals, and stone mullions.
The west (principal) elevation is broad and gabled, with a raised-centre tripartite window and the belltower projecting to the outer left. The polygonal belltower tapers across its four stages. The lower stage has a window at the northwest corner, the second and third stages are blank, and the fourth stage features an open-arcaded belfry, topped with a stone roof and decorative cast-iron finial.
The south (entrance) elevation displays a nave elevation with a stop-chamfered moulded doorway and boarded timber door set within a small, gabled porch with a stone finial and glazed trefoil details to each return. Four windows are centrally placed, with three smaller triangular roof vents above. A lower, set-back chancel bay is located to the outer right.
The east elevation features a raised-centre tripartite window to a broad gable, with a stone cross finial atop a taller gable behind it. A single window is set to a slightly set-back, narrower gable at the right.
The north elevation has a raised-centre tripartite window to the transeptal gable on the left, and a door to the vestry on the outer left. Three windows are set back along the nave side, with the belltower at the outer right.
Diamond-pattern leaded multi-pane glazing is used throughout, with colored glass featured inside. The roof is covered in graded grey slates, and the stepped ashlar-coped skews have triangular skewputts. Cast-iron downpipes incorporate decorative rainwater hoppers.
The interior includes fixed timber pews, boarded dadoes, a tessellated floor, and a high, open-timbered roof supported by stone corbels. The chancel contains a carved aumbry, stall, and Communion table. Delicate ironwork is present on the pulpit, and a pipe organ is housed in the north transept. An octagonal stone font is also found within. A brass mural monument commemorates Kathleen Anderson, a Guider who drowned saving a Girl Guide at St Andrews in 1929. Colored glass includes a figurative memorial window to the east dedicated to Thomas Henry Montgomery of Haltonburn, 1879, while the west window was installed during the 1950s. Individual lights include 'St Margaret' signed Douglas Hamilton, Glasgow, and 'St Andrew'.
Low, saddleback-coped boundary walls enclose the property, with mitre-coped, square-section ashlar piers at the west end and semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls elsewhere.
Local climate
St Paul's Episcopal Church, Muirs, Kinross receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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