Including Gatepiers And Boundary Walls, Former Bridge Of Strathfillan Parish Church And Manse, Strathfillan House, Tyndrum

Constructed around 1873, the former Bridge of Strathfillan Parish Church and Manse, along with Strathfillan House, form a distinctive group of buildings. They are attached with mutual access and organized in an H-plan. The manse is a two-story, three-bay structure, while the church has five bays. Both buildings are executed in the Gothic style, featuring hoodmoulds and, in the church, mostly pointed arch openings. The church has simple buttressing. The manse is particularly unusual due to its truncated, machiciolated square entrance tower, a rare feature in this area. The arrangement of an attached church and manse is also uncommon within the Church of Scotland’s architectural tradition.

The principal, South elevation displays the manse to the left. Here, an advanced, finialed gable is topped by bipartite windows. The re-entrant angle features the entrance tower, which incorporates a timber door with a simple rectangular fanlight and a bracketed stone canopy above. A single-light window sits above the canopy, and the tower is now capped with a shallow pyramidal roof. To the right of the manse is a single bay with a gabled attic window. Attached at a right angle to this is the church. The buildings have wallhead stacks on the West elevation, gable stacks on the North elevation, and a ridge stack on the South elevation.

The South entrance gable of the church has a central, advanced, coursed sandstone pitched porch with a Celtic cross at the apex. A recessed two-leaf timber boarded door, with good ironwork, is set within the porch. Above this is an oculus window, and the gable is topped by a pitched roof stone bellcote. The porch is flanked by a pair of narrow pointed arch windows. Both the house and the church share a base course.

The manse retains fine interior features including a timber staircase with rosette detailing, four-panel timber doors, and a number of surviving chimneypieces. A vestry located within the manse provides access to the church. Within the church, the pews were removed after its closure. The interior features dado height timber boarded panelling, exposed timber roof trusses set on stone corbels, and simple coloured glass patterns in the square leaded panes. A large timber pulpit remains at the North end, flanked by steps with trefoil detailing.

The manse is harled, with the tower finished in white-painted stone. The church is harled to the South and West elevations, and stone is used elsewhere. Non-traditional replacement windows are present on the manse, along with cast-iron rainwater goods and graded slate roofs.

To the South, a stone rubble coped boundary wall connects two pairs of square stone gatepiers with pyramidal caps which mark the entrance to the former manse and church.