Blairgowrie, Reform Street, South Free Church And War Memorial
Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Site Name Blairgowrie, Reform Street, South Free Church And War Memorial
Classification Church (19th Century), War Memorial (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) South Church; Reform Street, St Mary's South Church (Formerly Church Of Scotland) Including Church Hall, War Memorial
Canmore ID 162152
Site Number NO14NE 125
NGR NO 17891 45079
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/162152
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blairgowrie
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO14NE 125 17891 45079
South Church [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, June 2010.
Gothic church with 6-bay nave and square 2-stage tower with octagonal spire. Small blocks of roughly squared and snecked rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings, some stugged. Raised ashlar base course and eaves course. Sawtooth-coped, 2- and 3-stage buttresses; hoodmoulds with label stops. Trefoil- and multifoil-headed lights, some set into pointed-arch frames; traceried NE window. Chamfered reveals, stone mullions and raked cills. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork hinges. CHURCH HALL: rectangular-plan, slated, rubble hall with decorative bargeboarding, decorative ironwork finials and boarded timber doors.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Opened 2nd December, 1858 by Reverend Dr Guthrie of Edinburgh, as the Free South Church. Macdonald describes it as a "chaste, comparatively plain Gothic nave about 85' long by 44' high", he continues "the church as a whole, in its external aspect and its internal arrangements, is such as secures a high degree of comfort for the congregation". The building became St Mary's South Church when the nearby St Mary's Parish Church was demolished during the 1970s, at which time some mural monuments were added to the vestibule. St Mary's South closed on 29th January, 2002 at which time the congregation united with St Andrews Church to form Blairgowrie Parish Church. (Historic Scotland)
