Free Church, Chapel Street, Aberfeldy

The Free Church on Chapel Street in Aberfeldy, built in 1907, is a simple rectangular-plan Gothic church featuring a squat two-stage tower and a four-bay aisless nave. The exterior is constructed from squared and snecked chlorite-slate rubble, accented with sandstone ashlar dressings. Notable architectural elements include a raised base course, a string course, and a cornice on the tower, as well as two-stage sawtooth-coped angle buttresses. The church is adorned with traceried windows, hoodmoulds with label stops, chamfered reveals, and stone mullions.

On the west elevation, the entrance is marked by a broad gabled bay to the left, which includes a lean-to stone porch and a gabled doorpiece with a hoodmould. The entrance features two-leaf timber doors and an arrowslit in the gablehead, with single lights in the flanking bays and an additional light on the left return. Above, there is a full-width traceried window in the second stage, comprising a taller three-light window flanked by two-light windows, all hoodmoulded. A tiny paired blind arrowslit is located in the stone-finialled gablehead. The tower is positioned in the re-entrant angle to the right.

The tower's first stage on the west side has a hoodmoulded timber door leading to two small square windows, along with a single hoodmoulded window on the south side. Above is a string course, with narrow lights also on the west and south, topped by a cornice and a swept helm roof featuring a decorative cast-iron finial.

Both the north and south elevations of the nave each have four regularly spaced windows. The east elevation showcases a broad gabled bay with a circular window in the gablehead above a low lean-to vestry that has three windows, a shouldered stack, and a boarded timber door on the return to the left with a piended roof.

The church features largely multi-pane leaded glazing, some of which has coloured margins, including the small square windows at the tower's west side and the oculus on the east side. The roof is covered with grey slates, and there are coped ashlar stacks with polygonal cans, as well as ashlar-coped skews with mitre skewputts. Decorative cast-iron downpipes are also present.

Inside, the church has been altered but retains many fine details. A suspended false ceiling conceals a beautiful hammerbeam roof supported by stone corbels. There is a gallery on cast-iron columns, boarded dadoes, and decoratively-glazed panelled timber doors, along with some carved architraves and elaborately moulded cast-iron radiators.

The property is enclosed by low saddleback-coped rubble boundary walls, which are complemented by ironwork gates.