Interior - view of passage linking church halls to church

Description Interior - view of passage linking church halls to church

Date 1900

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

Catalogue Number SC 736126

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 16008

Scope and Content Hall Corridor, Gardner Memorial Church, Dundee Road, Brechin, Angus (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. This long cloister-based corridor, with a fine open-rafter roof, forms an interconnecting passage between the church hall and the church. It is flooded with natural light from square-headed, three-light, leaded glass windows, and lit at night by simple gas wall brackets. The door (right) opens to a grassed courtyard and open cloister within the angle of the church. Burnet used this L-shaped church-hall integrated plan in a family of smaller church designs which started in 1894 with Grangemouth and continued with Brechin (1896), Stenhousemuir (1897) and finished with Broomhill, Glasgow (1900). All of these churches also have a squat tower with Romanesque detailing. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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