St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Leny Road, Callander is a Grade B listed building in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 6 September 1979. Church. 1 related planning application.
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, Leny Road, Callander
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-parapet-birch
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 6 September 1979
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St Andrew's Episcopal Church, built in 1857 by J., W.H. & J.M. Hay, is an attractive small church of cruciform plan, constructed in the Rural Decorated Gothic style. A half-octagon-plan sanctuary was added in the later 19th century, alongside transepts and a rectangular single-story hall to the rear. The church is set back from the road on its plot, with a lawned area, a large cedar tree, and a sweeping driveway leading from the southeast.
Initially, the church comprised only the nave and a bellcote on the west gable, with a porch on the south side. In 1872, the sanctuary was added to the east, followed by the north and south transepts in 1886, and the hall in 1891.
The nave has simple pointed arch lancet windows, with a plate-traceried window to the west gable. The sanctuary and transepts are illuminated by cusped lancet windows with plate-traceried details to the gable ends.
Internally, the church has plastered white walls, timber boarding to dado height, and exposed rubble to the west wall. A pointed stone chancel arch provides access to the sanctuary. The nave floor is covered in deep red Minton tiles arranged in a geometric design, with further Minton tiles in the sanctuary. The roof features dark-stained timber scissors rafters, diagonal boarding, and arch bracing at the crossing. Stained glass windows in the chancel depict Christ with Mary, the Crucifixion, and the resurrected Christ. A stained glass window depicting the Annunciation is located in the south transept. A two-light stained glass window in the west gable illustrates baptismal themes and is dedicated to the memory of the Rev. Thomas Wildman, 1882. The hall has a stepped tripartite window to the west and was boarded to a coomed ceiling at the time of the 2004 site visit.
The church is built from random rubble 'pudding stone' with sandstone dressings to the openings, with stugged sandstone dressings to the sanctuary. Moulded blind arcade detailing is set to the gable apex of the transepts, surmounted by Celtic Cross shaped finials, and a cross shaped finial tops the bellcote. The main entrance is a stained timber boarded door, with a timber panelled and coloured leaded lights to the porch door. The roofs are grey slated, with bellcast swept eaves and sparred eaves. There are grey slated ventilators with cusped timber detailing, and red clay ridge tiles.
A low, coped boundary wall runs along the south side, with decorative cast iron railings. Square-plan gatepiers, set to the southwest, feature a panel motif and corniced caps. One gatepier was removed in 2004 for vehicular access. A decorative cast iron gate was also removed at the time of the site visit. The railings continue to the adjacent property, which historically housed the manse (currently unlisted as of 2004), and feature a corresponding gatepier.
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