Errol Parish Church, North Bank Dykes, Errol

Errol Parish Church, built between 1831 and 1833, was designed by James Gillespie Graham and constructed by George Page. It is a substantial Neo-Norman church of a cruciform plan, distinguished by its two-stage entrance tower topped with a pinnacled design. The church is built of dressed ashlar stone from the Knockhill quarry, featuring a deep stepped base and cill courses, and a corniced blocking course. Openings are deeply moulded with round heads featuring hoodmoulds, mask label stops, and cushion-capitalled nookshafts. The tower has distinctive saw-tooth coped buttresses and polished ashlar detailing, culminating in finialled and pinnacled features.

The north elevation is symmetrical, with a projecting tower as its central element and a single window to each return, flanked by further single windows. The tower’s first stage incorporates set-back angle buttresses, leading to a deeply moulded doorcase with paired nookshafts and a two-leaf timber door featuring decorative tracery. A pointed-arch hoodmould topped with a cross is above the door, with a small window above and single windows on the east and west elevations. The second stage of the tower has timber louvred openings with clock faces set into square-headed frames, a corbel course, and a crenellated parapet with slender octagonal pinnacles.

The south elevation features a centrally positioned gable with a large rose-traceried four-light window, flanked by clasping buttresses with octagonal pinnacles. The east elevation has an advanced, gabled section with a raised-centre tripartite window, flanked by buttresses, a low door in the re-entrant angle, and single windows in the recessed flanking bays. The west elevation mirrors the east elevation's design.

The church has diamond-pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins, grey slates, and ashlar-coped skews.

Inside, the church is galleried with timber bench pews. The tower includes a traceried screen door and a sunburst-astragalled fanlight, with curved stone stairs leading to the gallery. A portion of the nave has been infilled to create meeting rooms below the gallery. An arcaded wall on the east side contains a six-light traceried stained glass War Memorial window, dedicated to those who died in the First World War, accompanied by a brass plaque. Additional WWII memorial windows have been inserted. The raised chancel features a carved oak communion table and pulpit, with a pipe organ beyond the south rose window. A horseshoe gallery, supported by cast-iron columns with blind arcaded timberwork, is also present. Numerous memorials reside within the church, including a brass wall plaque commemorating Sir William Ogilvy Dalgleish and a timber memorial listing benefactors from 1700 to 1968.

The stained glass window on the south side, designed by J M Drummond of Megginch in 1867, depicts scenes from the life of Christ.

The boundary walls are constructed of coped rubble with octagonal ashlar gatepiers.