Interior -general view of nave Digital image of E 21297

Description Interior -general view of nave Digital image of E 21297

Date 1900

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 736124

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 21297

Scope and Content Nave, Gardner Memorial Church, Dundee Road, Brechin, Angus, looking east (now Southesk Church) The Gardner Memorial Church, Brechin, designed by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, was built between 1896 and 1900 with the church and hall integrated into a single design forming an L-plan around a courtyard. The interior, designed in a Scots Gothic style, was photographed by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, in 1900. The nave is open and spacious, with an open-rafter roof and a timber gallery at the east end. A low, round-arched four-bayed arcade, which springs from short cylindrical piers, opens into a north aisle as big as the nave itself. The final pier at the chancel (left) is given much heavier moulding to distinguish it from the others, and over the entrance to the chancel (foreground) is a rood beam with bases (centre) for the rood figures. Burnet designed all the furnishings, including the Renaissance-style pews in the chancel, the simple pews in the nave, and the late Gothic-style front to the gallery. It is not clear whether the rood figures were ever installed on their allotted positions on the beam, a style which marked the height of church decoration within the Church of Scotland around 1900. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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