Church Of The Holy Family, Clarendon Place, Dunblane

Reginald Fairlie, 1934. 5-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled church with bowed chancel to south. Red sandstone rubble with yellow ashlar margins. Eaves course, Blocked, plain architraves to openings. Small semicircular arched windows. Coped skews and skewputts. The presbytery and church hall dating to around 1870 to southwest of church were later converted to a coach house to chapel around 1883 and are not considered of special interest in listing terms.

E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 5-bay, 5 windows, fenestration compressed towards centre. Advanced, gabled porch to outer right; 2-leaf, boarded timber, semicircular-arched door to centre, small windows to returns.

W (REAR) ELEVATION: 5-bay, 5 windows, fenestration compressed towards centre. Advanced gabled rear porch to outer right, entrance to left return. Advanced, gabled boiler house to outer left, door to centre, tall stack abutting church nave wall to rear.

N (GABLE END) ELEVATION: 3-light, semicircular arched stained glass window. Stone cross finial to apex of gable.

S (GABLE END) ELEVATION: advanced, bowed chancel to centre; corbelled semicircular arched niche to centre, small windows to returns. Stone cross finial to apex of gable.

Diamond leaded windows. Grey slates, lead flashing, Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: plain, white rendered open nave with deep window recesses. Large, semicircular arch opening to south chancel, flanked by impost height exposed stonework, simple pilasters supporting exposed stonework arch ring. Impost height string course to bowed chancel. Modern stained glass commemorating the 1996 Dunblane Primary School tragedy to north end. Exposed tie beam, timber roof structure with carved timber corbels.

BOUNDARY WALL: low, coped wall, narrow squared red sandstone courses, terminating in square-plan piers and high arced, quadrant walls flanking entrance to church. Coped, rubble wall to abutting church hall to rear.