Church Of The Holy Family, Clarendon Place, Dunblane

The Church of the Holy Family in Clarendon Place, Dunblane, was designed by Reginald Fairlie in 1934. It is a rectangular, gabled church with a bowed chancel on the south side, built from red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar margins. The building features an eaves course, blocked plain architraves on the openings, and small semicircular arched windows. The skews and skewputts are coped. To the southwest of the church are the presbytery and church hall, dating from around 1870, which were later converted to a coach house for the chapel around 1883; these structures are not considered of special interest for listing purposes.

The east elevation has five bays and five windows, with the fenestration compressed towards the center. There is an advanced gabled porch on the outer right, featuring a two-leaf, boarded timber door with a semicircular arch, and small windows on the returns. The west elevation mirrors this with five bays and five windows, also with compressed fenestration. It has an advanced gabled rear porch on the outer right, with an entrance on the left return, and an advanced gabled boiler house on the outer left, featuring a door at the center and a tall stack against the church nave wall at the rear.

The north gable end has a three-light semicircular arched stained glass window, topped with a stone cross finial at the apex. The south gable end features an advanced bowed chancel in the center, with a corbelled semicircular arched niche and small windows on the returns, also topped with a stone cross finial.

The church has diamond leaded windows, a grey slate roof with lead flashing, and cast iron rainwater goods. Inside, the nave is plain and white rendered, with deep window recesses. There is a large semicircular arch opening to the south chancel, flanked by exposed stonework at impost height and simple pilasters that support the stone arch ring. A string course runs at impost height along the bowed chancel. Modern stained glass commemorating the 1996 Dunblane Primary School tragedy is located at the north end. The timber roof structure features exposed tie beams and carved timber corbels.

The boundary wall is low and coped, made of narrow squared red sandstone courses, and it terminates in square-plan piers with high arced quadrant walls flanking the entrance to the church. There is also a coped rubble wall abutting the church hall at the rear.