St John's Kirk Of Perth, St John's Place, Perth is a Grade A listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 20 May 1965. Church. 3 related planning applications.

St John's Kirk Of Perth, St John's Place, Perth

WRENN ID
first-corridor-gold
Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
20 May 1965
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Cruciform: 5-bay choir with clustered piers, clerestory and

aisles still with original roof-trusses, completed by 1448:

5-bay nave, with octagonal piers, aisled without clerestory,

transepts and NW Halkerston tower (actually NW porch with

upper chamber) late 15th century; central tower with ribbed

and leaded broach spire completed by 1511, 155' high: N.

transept shortened 1823: upper part of Halkerston tower

demolished: general repair and north and south doorways of

choir c.1827, J Gillespie Graham; repairs to choir 1893-4, A

Heiton and A Grainger Heiton. New roof and aisles to nave,

upper part of Halkerston tower rebuilt general restoration

and complete refurnishing, Sir Robert Lorimer, 1926, Bells;

Skelloch, 1400, Curfew; Maghens, 1506. Baptismal basin one of

earliest in Scotland, has mark of David Gilbert, Edinburgh

goldsmith, made between 1590 and 1594. Stained glass: Macnab

window, W Wilson: East Window, titled, "Last Supper and

Crucifixion", Douglas Strachan, circa 1920, 2 windows by

Marjorie Kemp, 1931 and 1933; others by Ballantine, Stephen

Adam, Meikle and Son, H Hendrie and Louis Davis.

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