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Parish church, still in ecclesiastical use, built in 1861 with later additions. It was originally a Free Church, and it became a Church of Scotland in 1929. It is shown on the 1st edition OS map as an enclosed oblong church with slightly irregular elevations, named St. Paul's Free Church. On the 2nd edition OS map it has been extended to the rear (south-east), and is depicted as 'U. F. Church'. Current maps show further alterations. It is a stylised gothic asymmetrical church, with pointed-arch windows and a square corner tower. It is constructed from stugged sandstone ashlar to the front, squared and snecked to the sides and rear, with ashlar dressings, chamfered margins and battered cills. The roof is multi-gabled with a broken roof line. The tower is at the south-western corner of the north-west elevation. At the ground floor is a pointed-arch doorway with a two-leaf panelled door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. Above is a pointed-arch window with three trefoil lights, with a spire to the top stage. To the north-east of the tower is a large gable end with a rectangular window containing four pointed-arch cusped lights to the ground floor, and a circular window within a pointed arch above this, containing seven quatrefoil lights inside the circle, and three circular lights outside it. There is a single-storey section to the north-eastern corner of the elevation, containing a single window with a cusped head. The south-west elevation has the tower to the north-western end, featuring a square window containing geometrical floreate tracery and an off-centre door. To the south-east of the tower is a gable end with a three-light pointed-arch window with intersecting tracery. The rest of the elevation is made up of two pitched roof sections and a gable end at the south-eastern extent, featuring a shallow-arched, stone-mullioned tripartite and three plain tripartites. The north-east elevation has a door in a pitched roof section to the north-west, with a three-light, pointed arch window with Y-tracery to the south-east of it. The section furthest to the south-east is set back. There is a pitched roof section with a three-light pointed-arch window with intersecting tracery high in the wall, and a blank gable end at the end of the elevation. The south-east elevation of the church is now covered by a later building. Inside there is a gallery to the west with carved, fluted panels with a glazed timber screen partition beneath. In the chancel there are geometrically patterned stained glass, and plain leaded lights in the nave. The simple timber roof and corbelled wall posts are exposed. There is a commemorative stone in the chancel for G. S. Sutherland, who was the first minister. To the north-west and north-east there is a stugged and coped boundary wall, with wrought-iron railings and gates to the north-west and square-section gatepiers. There is a harled boundary wall to the south-west.
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NO75NW0392 - MELVILLE SOUTH PARISH CHURCH, MONTROSE