Former Memorial Church, Bangour Village Hospital

The former Memorial Church, designed by Harold O Tarbolton and constructed between 1924 and 1930, is an asymmetrical neo-Romanesque church situated on a prominent raised location within the planned village hospital site of Bangour Village Hospital. The building comprises a seven-bay nave and lower aisle, a square-plan tower topped with a broach leaded spire to the southeast, an apsed memorial chapel to the south, and a lower gabled choir and vestry rooms to the north, with a small gabled tower to the northeast.

The church is constructed primarily of roughly squared and snecked brown whinstone, with polychrome window arch stones and margins. Architectural features include a clerestory, cornice, and round-arched windows. The west elevation features a tall gabled nave with clasping buttresses and a shouldered gable. Gabletted outer piers incorporate an “MR” monogram. A central round-arched window with simple tracery is positioned above a small slit window. An advanced lower gabled room is located to the left.

The south elevation showcases an advanced, shouldered-gable porch with a moulded, round-arched doorway and ornamental ironwork gates, incorporating a pendant light. The entrance features decorative, studded timber doors with a carved architrave that includes an integral fish motif, and a dedication in the tympanum. To the left is an advanced apsidal memorial chapel with small round-arched windows and a piended roof. A four-stage tower is situated to the far left, with narrow round-arched windows at ground level and louvred openings at the belfry, culminating in a lead-covered broach spire with a cross at the apex. The north elevation presents a variety of gabled sections, predominantly single-storey, with a porch to the right featuring a round-arched doorway and similar decorative iron gates.

The church is roofed with grey Caithness slates, and windows are currently boarded (as of 2011).

The interior, viewed in 2011, retains a remarkable and unified neo-Romanesque decorative scheme. It is characterised by coursed ashlar and round arches. A small gallery is integrated into the north side, and an apsidal memorial chapel is present to the south. Decoratively carved timber panelling in a Perpendicular style surrounds the sanctuary. Original features include an oak organ, choir pews and chairs, an altar rail, a stone altar with a timber altar canopy and dossal curtain, a hammerbeam roof with corbelled braces and kingposts, and a barrel-vaulted chapel with tie beams.