Gatepiers And Boundary Wall, Scone Old Parish Church, New Scone

Scone Old Parish Church is a Gothic, T-plan church built in 1804, with contributions from John Bell in 1833-1834. It is located within a churchyard and constructed of pinned rubble with raised ashlar margins. The church features part-glazed entrance doors on the east and west elevations, with Venetian-style windows above. The west elevation includes an ogee-capped Doric pillared bellcote that houses a bell from 1614, and there is a datestone from 1784 at the base. The church has various rectangular and pointed-arch window openings, some of which are chamfered. Inside, there is a notable 17th century Stormont pew.

The church predominantly has fixed timber windows, some with simple tracery, and is roofed with grey slates and raised skews.

The interior was refurbished in 1966 and includes timber pews, a pulpit, and a communion table. A highlight is the elaborately carved, columned, and canopied timber Stormont pew from 1616, which features two aediculed coats of arms and elaborate finials at the top.

Adjacent to the church is a session house built in 1877 by John Macdonald. This single-storey, irregular-plan building is made of coursed rubble and has a canted pedimented entrance bay on the southwest, featuring a shouldered door-case with a panelled timber entrance door and a fanlight above. The windows are predominantly multi-pane timber sash and case. The session house has irregular piended roofs covered with grey slates, raised skews to the gable, and tall, coped wallhead stacks. The interior layout remains largely intact, with a slatted timber-panelled session room that has a decorative cornice and an open timber roof.

The churchyard surrounds the church and contains a variety of gravestones, including some with carvings and Celtic crosses dating from the early 19th century. Notably, there is a large, elaborate Baroque monument to David Douglas, dating from 1840-1841, which features a stepped plinth, clasping pilasters, an inscribed face to the south, and vases at the corners, topped by a decorative foliate scroll and urn.

The churchyard is enclosed by coped rubble boundary walls to the north, south, east, and west, with capped, square-plan gatepiers to the east.