Rorison Memorial Church And Memorial Obelisk, Ashgillhead Road, Ashgillhead

Dated, 1889; refurbished 1912. Gable-ended small hall church with squat square-plan battlemented tower to left with pyramidal spire and weather vane. Stugged and snecked cream sandstone ashlar with polished and droved dressings. String course to gablehead. Chamfered reveals to pointed-arched openings; hood moulds; plain bargeboards. Gabletted 3/4 height pilasters flanking central 2 bays to pediment; droved angles to long and short quoins.

N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 4-bay gabled block to right: tall window in each bay to slightly advanced 2-bay block to centre; triple slit openings with taller slit to centre to gablehead above. Window in each bay flanking. TOWER: 2 stone steps to double chamfered doorpiece at ground; deep-set 2-leaf timber panelled door; (window at ground to E); trefoil-headed, deep-set louvered opening (also to E) below coped battlements with machicolations. Window in bay to outer left.

S (REAR) ELEVATION: irregularly fenestrated piended kitchen and youth hall additions to rear.

E (SIDE) ELEVATION: triple-gabled church hall elevation with 2 tall windows to each gable with 2-leaf timber door and letterbox fanlight and flanking window in single storey bay to outer left; drum vent with trefoil-headed openings and ?witch?s hat? roof to central gable ridge.

W (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with lower wall (windows blocked) to outer right. Window in each bay with bipartite window in bay to right. Steel/iron buttress between each bay.

Fixed small-pane leaded windows with some panes coloured; timber sash and case windows to rear additions. Grey slate roof; slate to spire; slate to additions; ashlar coped stack to S gable; ashlar skews to hall gables; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: church divided from hall by timber panelled and glazed folding screen doors with octagonal ashlar columns between. CHURCH: horizontally boarded coombed ceiling with corbelled stone ribs and pierced circular vent; leaf and dart cornice; modern timber panelling to S end; carved timber pulpit with pierced quatrefoil decoration on platform against N wall; similarly decorated table altar in front and gallery to right with plain octagonal font. HALL: flat ceiling with plain cornices; vertical boarding to dado rail height and exposed timber floorboards.

MEMORIAL: granite memorial obelisk commemorating 1914-18 War, sited to left (E) of front elevation. Hewn granite at lower stages with triangular-headed name plaques to each side; armorial shield with further names to lower section of obelisk; foliate band below carved flag.