Montgomery Presbyterian Church

Montgomery Presbyterian Church is a chapel built from pale greenish tooled squared stone, featuring yellow-brown sandstone ashlar dressings, possibly from Grinshill stone. The roof is covered with slate and includes two metal ventilators and red crested ridge tiles on the main roof, while the steep hipped roofs of the wings are banded with slates and topped with iron finials.

The front of the church is impressive, consisting of three bays, with the center bay being advanced and shallow-gabled. This central section is flanked by two stepped buttresses that have finials. The outer bays, which have hipped roofs at right angles, do not extend beyond the side walls and also feature two-step side buttresses similar to those on the side walls.

At the base, there is a heavy tooled plinth, and stone steps lead up to an ashlar moulded arched doorway that has a hoodmould extending out to the buttresses. The entrance features panelled double doors set in a chamfered frame, topped by a stone traceried fanlight with a Gothic octofoil design.

Above the entrance, there is a moulded course beneath a pair of ashlar arched lights with a pilaster in the center. The moulded base and capital are repeated on the outer jambs, and the capital moulding continues around the buttresses. The windows display Florentine tracery in stone, consisting of two arched lights with a roundel. The paired arches are also ashlar with hoodmoulds.

The gable is coped and features a pediment with moulded verges, and a lower string that is broken for a roundel with ashlar quatrefoil tracery. The buttresses have raised panelled blocks on each side of the pediment, supported by square piers with ashlar cornices topped with tiny curved pediments that back onto sharp pyramid finials.

The wings of the church each contain a single long Florentine window, complete with a hoodmould and carved stops, and bracketted sills over foundation stones. An ashlar eaves cornice runs along the top, with the upper moulding continuing around the return bay. The side walls are constructed of rubble stone and feature four bays of two arched lights, supported by five two-step buttresses. The return bay to the facade has ashlar moulded eaves, while the remaining eaves are plain.

The interior of the church is not available for inspection.