Former Memorial Church, Bangour Village Hospital

Harold O Tarbolton, dated 1924, completed 1930. 7-bay nave and lower aisle asymmetrical neo-Romanesque church with square-plan tower with broach leaded spire to SE, apsed memorial chapel to S and lower gabled choir and vestry rooms to N with shallow gabled tower to NE. Situated on prominent raised location at centre of colony planned village hospital site. Roughly squared and snecked brown whinstone with polychrome window arch stones and margins. Clerestorey, cornice. Round-arched windows.

WEST ELEVATION: tall gabled nave to R with clasping buttresses and shouldered gable. Gabletted outer piers, with MR monogram (see Notes). Central round-arched window with simple tracery; small slit window opening to gable above. Advanced lower gabled room to L.

S ELEVATION: advanced shouldered-gable porch to left with moulded, round-arched doorway; ornamental ironwork gates with further ornamental ironwork under arch with pendant light. Decorative 2-leaf studded timber entrance doors with carved architrave, with integral fish motif. Dedication in tympanum (See Notes) Further advanced apsidal memorial chapel to left with small round-arched windows and piended roof. 4-stage tower to far left with narrow round-arched windows to ground and louvred openings at belfry. Lead covered broach spire with cross to apex.

NORTH ELEVATION: variety of gabled with projecting sections, predominantly single-storey. Porch to right with round-arched doorway and decorative iron gates, similar to that on S elevation.

Grey Caithness slates. Leaded windows (currently boarded, 2011).

INTERIOR: (seen 2011). Intact and unified remarkable neo-Romanesque decorative scheme. Coursed ashlar. Round-arches. Small integral gallery to N side and apsidal memorial chapel to S. Decoratively carved timber panelling around sanctuary in Perpendicular style. Oak organ, choir pews and chairs and altar rail. Stone altar at E with timber altar canopy and dossal curtain. Hammerbeam roof with corbelled braces and kingposts above. Barrel vaulted chapel with tie beams.