Smollett Mausoleum, Churchyard, St Andrew's Parish Church, Main Street, Alexandria is a Grade B listed building in the West Dunbartonshire local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 July 1974. Church.
Smollett Mausoleum, Churchyard, St Andrew's Parish Church, Main Street, Alexandria
- WRENN ID
- eternal-cobalt-hawk
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- West Dunbartonshire
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 July 1974
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
- Gothic hall church with tower rectangular-plan church. Painted stugged squared and snecked sandstone; ashlar margins and dressings; rough render side and rear elevation. Base course; eaves cornice; strip quoins.
W (MAIN) ELEVATION: 2-stage tower with spire to buttressed bay at centre. Round-arched door, scalloped colonnette moulding; 2-leaf panelled door. 3-light round-arched window above; corbelled clock on each side, gabled sawtooth louvred lucarnes; octagonal narrow spire, finialled, lead weathervane; gabletted, pinnacled pilaster buttresses. Flanking buttressed bays; round-arched windows, scalloped hoodmoulds
N AND S ELEVATIONS: ashlar pilaster dividing nave from tower; 5-bay nave; round-arched windows; smaller round-arched window at tower.
E ELEVATION: 2-bay gabled block at centre; blank flanking bays. Modern flat-roofed vestry built at ground.
10-pane patterned fire glass; rear windows 6-pane bipartite. Low gabled roof, ashlar coping to skews, skewputts.
INTERIOR: stripped inteior. 2 stained glass patterned windows to Smollett family.
GRAVEYARD: range of mid to later 19th century grave monuments, Celtic cross, slab memorials.
SMOLLETT MAUSOLEUM: Romanesque Revival; shallow T-plan, mauseleum straddling rear wall; honey-coloured sandstone ashlar; ashlar dressings; zoomorphic, figuartive sculptures. Gabled entrance bay, Romanesque door; chevron moulding; colonnettes; hoodmould, zoomorphic labelstops; plaque in gablehead; cross finial; grotesque figurative corbel. Narrow bays, recessed niches. Arcaded blind window; hoodmould, grotesque labelstops; very weathered on left return. Grey slate roof, ashlar ridging.
WAR MEMORIAL: rusticated granite, battered base; primitive Celtic cross.
GATEPIERS AND RAILINGS: octagonal piers with depressed finialled caps; low plinth wall with arrowhead cast-iron railings.
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