North Church, Mill Street, Perth

T L Watson, 1880. Nave and aisle, Romanesque church with prominent, diaper-decorated central advanced pedimented basilica entrance bay and polygonal side apses. Ashlar with chanelled rustication to ground at street elevation. Base course, moulded band courses, corbelled cornice, parapet. Round-arched window openings to clerestory.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: ENTRANCE ELEVATION TO N: stairs lead to flat-roofed port-cochere type porch with round-arched doorway with Corinthian colonnettes and semicircular pattern carving above. Corner piers with inset panels with carved foliage designs and pilaster angle buttresses. Pedimented full height bay behind with central, 3 round-arched windows with Corinthian engaged columns. Diaper ornamentation to gable above and indented corbelling under parapet. Turreted clasping buttresses. Cross to apex. Flanking polygonal side apses with round-arched window openings and indented corbelled to cornice.

Rear (S) with round-arched window arcade to ground.

INTERIOR: (seen 2009). 5-aisled bays with panelled timber, horseshoe gallery supported by cast-iron columns. Barrel vaulted ceiling. Round-arched arcades separate nave and aisles, carried on slender columns with foliate capitals. Domed vaults to aisles bays. Timber pews to aisles and gallery. Timber communion table, pulpit and organ case.

FORMER CHURCH SESSION HOUSE TO REAR (S): 2-storey, 3-bay Classical former Session House. Tooled sandstone with ashlar margins. Band course, cornice. Timber entrance door to East elevation with consoled cornice. Windows with side lights to both storeys at North elevation with blocking course above.

Interior: some decorative plasterwork cornicing, simple fire surrounds and timber shutters.