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Estimated to accommodate 720 worshippers,
the Church is cruciform in shape, comprising a nave,
cloister, apsidal chancel and south transept, and is
finished with a graceful spire rising over 120 feet.
The tower, surmounted by the spire, is
situated at the south angle over the principal doorway, and
contains a bell, in the key of A, presented by Mr
Mitchell-Innes. Built with white dressed freestone and
standing on a fine open site, the exterior of the building
reveals much decorative beauty.
On the north side are a small but neat
vestry and the entrance to the pews in the Apse through an
open porch of ornamental timber work. In front of the
pulpit, which commands both the transept and the nave, stand
the baptismal font as well as the new communion table and
the reading desk of light Spanish oak, commemorative of the
men of the parish who died in the Great War and gifted by
members of the Young Men’s Guild and Mr John Heron
respectively.
The tranceried windows are enriched with
coloured glass, the west light above the gallery being an
architectural feature of much beauty. The latter, called the
‘Rose Window’, is shaped like a wheel and is filled with
geometric and foliated glass.
At the east end of the chancel are three
twin light windows representing the Six Acts of Mercy; those
in the south transept consist of four upright lights, the
subject being ‘The Adoration of the Magi and the Shepherds’
who are represented offering their gifts to the infant
Saviour. On the north side are three upright lights
depicting the ‘Sermon on the Mount’. In the adjoining
graveyard are tombstones dating 250 years back.
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