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Parish church, still in ecclesiastical use, built by John Paterson in 1810-12. It was altered and enlarged in 1878, the interior partly refurbished by John Smith in 1884, a hall block added to the west in 1970 and a timber screen added to the interior in 2002. It is a tall, single-stage, D-plan, crenellated, gothic church building with octagonal turrets at the curved front with a square tower at the centre. The church building is dry-dashed with chamfered stone margins and squared and snecked rubble with dressed margins and voussoirs to the north. There is a base course and corbelled, crenellated parapets, pointed-arch openings and timber Y-traceried fenestration. The windows have predominantly diamond-pattern leaded glazing with coloured margins, and some coloured glass. The grey slate roof has cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers dated 1810. The dominant, engaged entrance tower projects at the centre of the south elevation, with diagonal angle buttresses rising to the third stage. The first stage has a two-leaf, vertically-boarded timber door (replaced in 1995) with large decorative ironwork hinges, a deep timber-traceried pointed-arch fanlight with diamond-pattern, leaded glazing and flanking modern wall-mounted carriage lamps. The second and third stages have a band course between them, and the reduced third stage has quoin strips and corbelled angle bartizans. There are Windows to centre of each stage at the returns and the second and third stage on the south elevation. The first and second stage return windows are blind, and the third stage windows are louvered and glazed. The corbelled out, crenellated ashlar parapet has angle bartizans with blind arrowslits and polygonal stone caps. The octagonal turrets are three stage, with dividing courses between each stage. Each curved bay flanking the entrance tower has a single large window. There are flanked in turn by squat, three-stage octagonal turrets, comprising windows on alternating faces at the first and second stages, blind where abutting the curved bay at the second stage. The tower to the east has an additional boarded timber door to the north face of the first stage. There are dividing courses between each stage of the turrets. To the east, the three-bay elevation comprises a two-leaf, vertically-boarded timber door to the centre with flanking windows and regular fenestration to the gallery floor above. It has a diagonal buttress with pyramidal stone cap to the outer north angle. To the west is the 1970 two-storey, near rectangular-plan, rendered church hall and offices adjoining the church. It has a south entrance elevation with a glazed doorpiece. The north elevation has been altered, with a variety of elements including a crenellated, single storey, rubble vestry with a part-blocked trefoil-headed windows and boarded timber door under a leaded fanlight. The church has a fine galleried interior with fixed timber pews. The porch has an encaustic-tiled floor and mural monuments including WWI and WWII memorials, a stone slab (possibly font) and a 1736 bell, both from the Old Fetteresso Church. A 21st century timber screen leads to the body of the church, which has vertically-boarded timber dadoes, a timber horseshoe gallery on slender painted columns with Corinthian capitals, stepped timber pews, painted ceiling roses and diagonally-boarded timber doors and gallery parapet panels. There is a timber altar table and communion chair, the latter incorporating an earlier panel that reads 'I M P F 1682'. The panel commemorates the Episcopalian minister John Milne, and was rescued from the pulpit of the old Fetteresso Church. Steps flank and leading to a decorative timber pulpit with an organ above by Willis of London, installed in 1876 and donated by the Bairds of Ury House. The vestry door is to the right of the pulpit. The coloured glass includes a 1902 memorial window to Lizzie Lindsay Wood depicting lilies (see NO88NE0184), by Benson and Co, Glasgow, and St Clare and St Francis by Crear McCartney in 1990. The boundary walls are rubble with semi-circular copes. Polygonal ashlar gatepiers with cornices and shallow polygonal caps support two-leaf decorative ironwork vehicular gates, with low saddleback-coped quadrant walls and inset ironwork railings.
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