Sites and Monument Record: Grange Church (SMR 275)
Description
John Bennie Wilson. 1900-1903. red bull-faced sandstone Arts and Crafts church, built for UF congregation (formerly UP congregation). Galleried, simple rectangle on plan, oriented N-S. Early English (lancet or plate-traceried) windows, 3 light rectangular windows lighting nave at lower and upper gallery levels. Rubble plinth; square-gridded leaded obscured (clear) glass. Grey slated steeply-pitched slated roof with shallow catslide skylights to W and E, red clay ridge tiles, and masonry Celtic cross finials.
Prominent, slightly battered, square plan entrance tower at NW with octagonal NE angle turret: pointed arched entrance to W from Park Road, single lancet over at middle stage, string course over marking belfry upper stage, wall buttresses clasping at belfry-stage angles, single pointed-arched belfry openings with Y-tracery to each face, wall buttresses rising above wallhead and coped, as crenellations, red-tiled bellcast pyramid roof, eaves swept down between crenelations; leaded apex and finial.
W elevation: tower to left, 2 nave bays set back at centre, taller transeptal gabled bay slightly projecting to right, with large overarched stepped triple lancets at upper level, as at S (liturgical E) and E, lighting chancel. Entrance porch slightly set back to right in front of short chancel projection, leading to church (left) and vestry and hall (right).
N (Ronaldshay Crescent) frontage: tall nave gable front, 2 windows wide, tower slightly set back to right, polygonal 2-stage ?staircase projection in front of tower. Entrance bay set back to left, segmented arched entrance with original 2-leaf doors, upper sections glazed and multi-panelled.
Interior: slightly polychrome effect with cream polished ashlar to main wall planes, and red polished ashlar vousoirs to pointed arcades over galleries. Canted gallery fronts pierced with simple cusped trefoils, clock in N gallery front removed, galleries supported on cast-iron columns, raked seats; chancel screen only in chancel arch, organ, as well as most other furniture, removed (1992), chancel recess stencilled with gold stars on blue, ?circa 1950; original pews, stripped (pitched pine). Timber barrel-vaulted roof with diagonally-boarded panels, and tie-braces with cusped decoration. Single-storey church hall linked to S, lit by bipartite windows, with grey slated pitched roof and ornate ridge fleche, with timber louvres decorated with cusping, and tall slated pyramid roof. Hall, W elevation: single-storey, with gable, left, linked to asymmetrical wallhead stack, tripartite window to right. Interior (hall); with
deep straight-coved boarded roof and timber arched braces; single stained glass window to S at church hall, coloured glass floral swag motif set in clear leaded glass.
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