Aberfoyle Parish Church, Lochard Road, Aberfoyle

Aberfoyle Parish Church is a Gothic-style church constructed in two phases between 1869 and 1884, designed by John Honeyman. The church is built of whin rubble with cream sandstone dressings and stands on a raised area on the north side of Lochard Road, about half a mile west of Aberfoyle village centre. It is a good example of Early English Gothic revival architecture from the late 19th century.

The original church, built between 1869 and 1870, was a simple rectangular building, six bays long, oriented east to west. It features a gabled bellcote above the east nave gable, a slightly lower chancel at the east end with two head-moulded lancet windows and a blind trefoil on the gable, and a triple lancet window on the west nave gable. In 1883-84, Honeyman added south and north transepts to the east end of the nave, and an octagonal vestry with cusped lancet windows to the right of the east elevation. The vestry is linked to the chancel by a small lean-to section containing a shouldered door. A gabled entrance porch was also added to the far left of the south elevation.

The triple lancets and the entrance porch doorway on the south and west elevations are detailed with moulded arches, shafted jambs and hoodmoulds, incorporating foliate capitals and label stops. The south transept gable has a cusped round window. Smaller lancets on the south elevation are also hoodmoulded. Diagonal and angle buttresses are used on the gable ends, while pier buttresses divide the bays of the side elevations.

Later alterations included the addition of a gabled bay to the west side of the north transept, with a rendered lean-to projecting from it.

Inside, the nave roof has arch-braced trusses with diagonal boarding. The chancel arch is moulded with clustered shafts and floriate capitals. The sanctuary is paved with coloured Minton tiles and contains a stone piscina on the south wall. The stone and alabaster pulpit features Gothic and foliate detailing. The organ, built by Bryceson Bros of London in 1887, is also located within. The church contains several good stained glass windows dating from the late 19th century.

The church is constructed with random whin rubble with cream sandstone chamfered margins and quoins. It has a pitched, graded slate roof, stone skews and moulded skewputts. The main entrance is a two-leaf timber-boarded door with ornamental hinges. Rainwater goods are mostly cast iron.

To the east of the south transept is a bell, set within a low stone frame with a slated roof. The bell is dated 1725 and was presented by the Duke of Montrose to the earlier Old Parish Church (listed separately).

A war memorial from 1921 stands to the south of the church. It comprises a sandstone cross and a tapered octagonal shaft, mounted on a pedestal with inscribed polished pink granite panels.

Low random rubble boundary walls with rounded copes run east to west along the south boundary. Round rubble gatepiers with conical caps mark the west end.