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Examples of Grants Awarded

Details of congregations that have successfully received grants for repair and renovation work or conservation reports over the last few years.

Grants Awarded 2007

  • Athelstaneford Parish Church. Cruciform church of 1870 incorporating the 1583 gable and bellcote of the earlier church. Repairs to bellcote. £4,000
  • Clachan Church, Applecross. Multi-denominational. Rectangular stone church of 1817 on a site of immense historic and archaeological significance. Summary conservation report commissioned from Andrew Wright £1,456
  • Banff Methodist Church. Traditional preaching box of dark whinstone with pale sandstone dressings. Window repairs. £3,000
  • Boghall Parish Church. Modern movement church with hyperbolic parabolic roof and brick and timber interior, 1965, by Wheeler & Sproson. Roof repairs. £8,000
  • Bower Church, Caithness. Traditional preaching-box church by William Davidson, 1847, altered, 1902. Window repairs. £2,000
  • St Nicholas Buccleuch, Dalkeith. Choir of collegiate church, 1406, with nave and transepts by David Bryce, 1851. Masonry repairs. £7,000
  • Link Christian Fellowship, Dunfermline. Assemblies of God. Built as a Masonic Lodge in 1913, by Crawford & Fraser. Powerful classical design with Doric pilastered street elevation and remarkably intact interior with Ionic columns. General repairs. Summary conservation report commissioned from Stephen Newsom £1,760 and grant £8,000
  • St John’s Church, Dunoon. Large neo-Gothic church by John Bryden, 1877, with tall spire and many gables. Repairs to spire. £5,000
  • St Patrick’s Church, Cowgate, Edinburgh. Built as the English Chapel by John Baxter, 1771, re-ordered 1856 when adopted by the Catholic Church. Roof and masonry repairs. £10,000
  • St Margaret’s Parish Church, Restalrig, Edinburgh. Fifteenth century collegiate church rebuilt in Gothic revival style, by William Burn, 1836. General repairs. £8,000
  • Wellsprings Community, Newcraighall, Edinburgh. Non-denominational. Miners’ church of polychrome brick, 1877, originally Church of Scotland, closed 1968 and being brought back into ecclesiastical use. General repairs. £6,000
  • St Paul, Whiteinch, Glasgow. Large church of red stone with copper roof, 1950s by Charles Gray of Sir Reginald Fairley & Partners. Complete set of windows by Gabriel Loire. General repairs. £6,000
  • St Teresa of Lisieux, Possil, Glasgow. T-plan, red-brick church with sandstone dressings, 1956, Alexander McAnally. Repairs to tower and windows. £6,000
  • Kilmelford Church, by Oban. T-plan church of 1790 with tall roof and lancet windows and 8-spoke wheel window over entrance. General repairs. £6,000
  • Kirkandrews Kirk. Ecumenical. Miniature fort of 1906 designed by Walter Higgenbottom to enhance the landscape of local landowner James Brown. Masonry repairs. £5,000
  • St Nicholas, Lanark. Classical church of 1774 by John Reid in centre of Lanark on site of earlier church. Repairs to masonry and re-rendering. £4,000
  • Coltness Memorial Church, Newmains. Cathedral-like church, 1878, William Wallace Architect, in Norman-Gothic style. General repairs. £4,000
  • Rosslyn Chapel, Roslin. Choir of fifteenth century collegiate church renowned for spectacular stone carving. General repairs. £5,000
  • Scalloway Church, Shetland. Square stone box with slate roof, 1841. Roof repairs. £4,000
  • Scarista Church. Harled rectangular church with attached porch and vestry, given character by pointed arch windows. Window repairs. £3,000
  • Tillicoultry Parish Church. Neo-Perpendicular church, 1829, William Stirling, with octagonal bell-tower overhanging the entrance facade. Roof and window repairs. £9,000
  • Weisdale Kirk. Single-storey harled kirk with bell-cote, 1863. Repairs to floor following outbreak of dry rot. £4,000

Grants Awarded 2006

  • Acharacle Church. Typical Telford Parliamentary church of 1829. Roof repairs. £6,000
  • St Vigean’s, by Arbroath. Medieval red sandstone church, restored and altered by Robert Rowand Anderson, 1872. General repairs. £3,000
  • Lamlash Church, Arran. Red sandstone T-plan Gothic church with campanile-style tower, 1886, H & C Barclay. Stone repairs. £4,000
  • Arisaig Church. Small church forming a terrace with the manse, originally built for the Roman Catholic Church in 1810, James Gillespie Graham. Roof repairs. £5,000
  • Barvas Free Church. Harled T-plan church , 1850, with fixed pews and gallery. Replacement of finial urns. £500
  • St Andrew’s, Carluke. Square church with three-gabled porch and square tower, 1799 by Henry Bell. General repairs. £3,000
  • St Mary’s, Coatbridge. Gothic Revival church of nave, small side aisles and chancel, 1896, Pugin & Pugin. General repairs. £6,000
  • St Patrick’s, Coatbridge. Gothic revival church with nave, aisles and canted apse on a sloping site creating a deep under-building, Pugin & Pugin, 1896. General repairs. £5,000
  • East Cromarty Church (former Church of Scotland, now in ownership of Scottish Redundant Churches Trust). T-plan former parish church, main 18th century with earlier origins, harled and slated with exceptionally well-preserved interior. Roof and masonry repairs. £8,000
  • Cupar Old Church. Georgian Box of 1785 with medieval tower attached. General repairs. £5,000
  • Glenorchy Church, Dalmally. White-harled octagonal church with square tower, 1811, James Elliot. Repairs to tower and windows. £5,000
  • St John’s, Dunoon. Norman Gothic church of nave, chancel and aisles by R A Bryden, 1876. General repairs. £5,000
  • Eskadale Church, by Beauly. Spacious white-harled church of 1825 with additions by Peter Paul Pugin, 1881. Roof repairs. Summary conservation report commissioned from Andrew P K Wright, £1,100 and grant £9,000
  • Glasite Meeting House, Edinburgh (Free Church Continuing). Austere preaching box with three-decker nine-seater pulpit, 1832 by Alexander Black. Roof and masonry repairs. £3,000
  • Eyemouth E U Congregational Church. Cruciform church, 1905 by William J Gray, originally for Primitive Methodist Church. Window repairs. £1,500
  • St Simon’s, Partick, Glasgow. Simple Gothic Church, known as the Polish Church, 1858 by Charles O’Neill, with altar by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. General repairs. £2,000
  • Trinity Possil and Henry Drummond Church, Glasgow. Brick-built church of large nave, narrow side aisles and octagonal chancel, with largely intact interior. Stewart & Paterson, 1936. Repairs to gables. £5,000
  • Haddington West. Red sandstone Gothic Revival church by Sidney Mitchell & Wilson, 1890. Repairs to roof and rainwater goods. £3,000
  • St Michael & All Angels, Helensburgh. Gothic revival church of nave, chancel and side aisles, 1867, by Robert Rowand Anderson, tower completed 1930. General repairs. £5,000
  • St John’s, Johnstone. Compact Gothic Revival church of nave, chancel and transepts, 1874, Mr Thomson of Wellington Street, Glasgow. General repairs. £1,000
  • St Mary’s Church and Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth. High Victorian church and monastery buildings, 1867-70, by Andrew Heiton. Roof and masonry repairs. Grant for work to church only. £4,000
  • Melrose Parish Church. Georgian Revival church by J M Dick Peddie, 1911, retaining spire of 1810 by John Smith. Roof repairs. £4,000
  • Church of the Holy Family, Port Glasgow. Dramatic brick-walled church with high-level windows, copper roof and square tower by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, 1959. General repairs. £5,000
  • St Matthew’s, Rosewell. Byzantine-style church with prominent advanced and canted gable, 1925, by Archibald McPherson, part of a complex with cloister, hall and presbytery. General repairs. Grant for work to church only. £6,000
  • Tarbert Church. Gothic revival church with dominant tower and crown spire overlooking the harbour, 1886, McKissock & Brown. General repairs. £3,000
  • Tingwall Church, Shetland. Simple rectangular church with round-headed windows and bell-cote on gable, 1788. Repairs to balcony. £3,000
  • Holy Trinity, Stirling. Gothic Revival with polychrome brick interior by Robert Rowand Anderson, 1878. General repairs. £6,000
  • Weisdale Kirk. Single-storey kirk with bell-cote, 1863. Repairs to south gable. £500

Grants Awarded 2005

  • St John the Evangelist, Aberdeen. Victorian neo-Gothic, 1851, with pointillist mural c1910 and reredos by Ninian Comper. Additional repairs to stonework of tower. £1,000
  • Ardoch Parish Church. Simple rectangular church of 1770, porch and chancel added 1890 by William Simpson. Repairs to belltower and roof. £1,000
  • Aviemore Parish Church. Simple rectangular granite-built kirk of 1902 with bell-cote and porch. Roof and masonry repairs. £3,000
  • St Margaret’s, Braemar. Gothic Revival church with exquisite wooden rood screen, hanging cruxifix and choir stalls by Sir Ninian Comper. Repairs. £2,000
  • Broughton Church. Simple rectangular church by Robert Bryden of 1802, transepts added 1886. Roof repairs. £1,000
  • Carnock Parish Church. Cruciform church with round-headed windows and square tower, 1840 by J Henderson. Repairs to steeple. £1,500
  • Dysart Kirk. Romanesque cruciform church of 1874 by Campbell, Douglas & Sellars. Restoration of three of twelve panels by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. £6,000
  • St John’s, Eastriggs, Dumfriesshire. Delightful Arts & Crafts inspired church of 1917, designed by C M Crickner under the direction of Sir Raymnd Unwin. General repairs. £3,000
  • Craigsbank Church, Corstorphine, Edinburgh. Dramatic modern movement church of 1966 by Sir William Kininmonth. General repairs. £4,000
  • St Mark’s, Portobello, Edinburgh. Handsome classical temple of 1824. Roof and masonry repairs. £4,000
  • Scottish Churches House Chapel, Dunblane. Ecumenical. 16th century or earlier stone vault, converted into a simple chapel c1960. Waterproofing and stone repairs. £2,000
  • Our Lady & St Andrew, Galashiels. Gothic revival church with prominent buttresses and octagonal corner towers designed by William W Wardell, 1856-8. Roof, rainwater goods and masonry repairs. £3,000
  • Calton Parkhead Church, Glasgow. Red brick church, 1935 by Hutton & Taylor, with unspoilt interior where brick and timber is used to stunning effect. Original décor and fittings survive. General repairs. £4,500
  • Sacred Heart, Bridgeton, Glasgow. Red sandstone basilica by Charles Menart with dominant Diocletian window in gable flanked by towerlets. Repairs to roof and rainwater goods. £3,000
  • St Mary’s, Calton, Glasgow. Rectangular, classical, pedimented church by Goldie & Child, 1842 with elaborate interior. Repairs to roofs, rainwater goods and high-level masonry. £3,000
  • St Columba’s, Glenrothes. Part of a complex of church, halls and manse by Wheeler & Sprossan, 1961, the worship space lit by clerestory windows. Roof and high-level repairs. £5,000
  • St Cuthbert’s, Hawick. Gothic revival church of 1858 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. Repairs to bell-cote. £3,000
  • St Michael’s, Inveresk. Classical church with four-stage tower and spire by Robert Nisbet, 1805. Roof and masonry repairs. £1,000
  • St Peter’s, Inverkeithing. Four-stage tower of 14th century with Gothic revival nave by James Gillespie Graham, 1827 with interior by Peter McGregor Chalmers, 1900. Repairs to nave archade. £3,000
  • Ness Bank Church, Inverness. Early Gothic revival style church, 1901 by William Mackintosh, uses a sloping site in the bank if the River Ness to good advantage. Rebuilding of entrance steps. £3,000
  • St Kiaran’s, Kilchoman, Isle of Islay. Romanesque church with wide chancel arch and semicircular apse of 1899 by Peter MacGregor Chalmers. Stonework repairs. £5,000
  • Kilninver Parish Church. Plain harled kirk with simple timber details, original building of 1792, remodelled 1891. Roof repairs. £1,000
  • Kirkcudbright Parish Church. T-plan Gothic church with 3-stage tower and broached spire, 1835-8, William Burn. General repairs. £3,000
  • St Monan’s Parish Church. T-shaped 14th century church in a dramatic seaside situation by Sir William Dishington with tower and steeple above crossing. Window repairs. £5,000
  • Shotts E U Congregational Church. Simple rectangular church with Gothic lancet windows, 1907. Repairs to spire. £1,000
  • Skirling Kirk. Traditional rectangular church of 1720 with substantial alterations 1891. Repairs to bell-cote. £1,500
  • St James’s, Stonehaven. Simple neo-Norman church of nave, aisles and chancel by Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, 1875-7. Stone repairs. £2,000
  • Symington Parish Church, Ayrshire. Ayrshire‘s Norman church, 12th century with alterations of 1919 by Peter McGregor Chalmers. Masonry repairs to west gable. £3,000
  • Yetholm Parish Church. Tall rectangular church built of the local whinstone with octagonal corner buttresses and a square tower, 1835 by Robert Brown. Roof and masonry repairs. £3,000

Grants Awarded 2004

  • St Mary's, Carden Place, Aberdeen. Known as the Tartan Kirkie from the effect of the various granites used in its construction, 1864, Alexander Ellis. Rot eradication. £1,500
  • St Mary's, Cove Bay, Aberdeen. 1864, small granite building, originally built as a boys’ school. Restoration of mural paintings. £3,000
  • St John the Evangelist, Aberdeen. Victorian neo-Gothic, 1851, with pointillist mural c1910 and reredos by Ninian Comper. Dry rot treatment and replastering as part of a major repairs scheme. £4,000
  • New Wellwynd Parish Church, Airdrie. Simple classical temple, 1834. Repairs to roof and belltower. £5,000
  • Airth Parish Church. 1820, William Stirling, neo-Gothic. Masonry repairs. £1,000
  • St Andrew's, Callander. 1857 delightful church with nave, polygonal apse, transepts and south porch. Roof repairs. £5,000
  • Culter Parish Church, Coulter. Classical rectangular kirk of 1810 with octagonal belltower. Roof repairs. £3,000
  • Crichton Collegiate Church. Medieval church, completed 1449, with central crossing tower. Window repairs. £4,000 in support of grant from Landfill Tax Credit Scheme
  • Holy Trinity, Dumfermline. 1891, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, neo-Gothic; windows by William Wilson and James Powell & Sons. Window repairs. £1,000
  • St Anne's, Dunbar. Gothic revival in red sandstone by Wardrop and Anderson, 1890. Repair of west window. £1,000
  • St Margaret's, Lochee, Dundee. Designed in 1888 by the Rev E Sugden with Scandiavian-inspired features. Repairs to pews. £500
  • Duddingston Kirk, Edinburgh. The oldest kirk in regular use in Scotland; the existing fabric dates from 1124. Masonry repairs. £7,000
  • London Road Church, Edinburgh. French Gothic with plate tracery and a tall spire by John Starforth, 1874. General repairs. £5,000
  • St Michael's, Slateford, Edinburgh. Large and prominent church of 1881 by John Honeyman in Early English style with a good interior. General repairs. £5,000
  • Sikh Temple, Edinburgh. Formerly St Thomas‘s Church, 1840, John Henderson. General repairs. £3,000
  • St John the Baptist, Fauldhouse. 1873, W L R Ingram, early Gothic style. Window repairs. £1,000
  • Bellie Parish Church, Fochabers. Handsome classical church of 1797 by John Baxter with prominent portico and spire. Repairs to spire. £3,000
  • St Aloysius, Garnethill, Glasgow. Renaissance-style church with nave, transepts and apse by Charles Menart, 1910. Restoration of mural decoration. £6,000
  • Our Lady of Good Counsel, Glasgow. 1965, Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, unique church building with dramatic copper roof. Roof and rainwater goods repairs. £5,000
  • Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Kirkcaldy. Former Free Church with dominant tower and spire. General repairs. £5,000
  • St Mary Mother of God, Leslie. Built 1879 for the Free Church, Architect R Thornton Shiells, Roman Catholic since 1959. The church sits on raised ground and has a landmark tower and spire. Repairs following fire. £7,500
  • Lochgilphead Parish Church. 1885, John Honeyman, nave-and-chancel church with dominant tower and spire. Rot eradication. £2,500
  • Lochwinnoch Parish Church. Classical preaching box of 1808 in the form of an irregular octagon with large tower and spire sited axially in historic town. General repairs. £10,000
  • Tundergarth Parish Church, Lockerbie. 3-bay Gothic church with tower at south-west corner. Window repairs. £1,000
  • St Andrew's, Moffat. John Starforth, 1887, pointed Gothic style with square tower. Roof repairs. £5,000
  • All Saints', St Andrews. Complex of church and halls around a courtyard by Paul Waterhouse, 1920-23. Repairs to furnishings by Hew Lorimer and Nathaniel Hitch. £3,000
  • Saltoun Church, East Saltoun. T-plan Georgian Gothic church of 1805 with square tower and slender spire. Repairs to lightning protection. £1,000
  • Kirk O'Shotts. Prominently sited Gothic church of 1820 by James Gillespie Graham. General repairs. £6,000
  • St Andrew's, Strathtay. Simple Gothic church of chancel (1888) and nave (1919) with octagonal tower. Windows by Willement. Ongoing window repairs. £1,500
  • Tillicoultry Parish Church. 1829, simple preaching box with Gothic traceried windows. Window and masonry repairs. £2,000
  • St Ninian's Priory Church, Whithorn. 3-bay box incorporating masonry from the earlier priory. Window repairs. £5,000

Grants Awarded 2003

  • New Wellwynd, Airdrie. 1834, Alexander Blair, simple classical temple, topped with square bell tower with domed octagonal belfry. General repairs to roof, walls and bell tower. £3,000
  • Auchtermuchty Parish Church. 1780, T-plan kirk with 6-column belfry. Repairs to roof, rainwater goods and pointing. £1,500
  • Lorne & Lowland Church, Campbeltown. 1869, John Burnet, Italian Renaissance with tall tower topped with a crown. Repairs to plaster Ceiling. £2,000
  • St Mungo's, Cumbernauld. 1966, Alan Reiach, modern square-plan church with dramatic pyramidal roof with central roof light topped steeper pyramid spire. Roof repairs to timber lining to sanctuary. £6,000
  • Dalmellington Parish Church. 1845, Patrick Wilson of Edinburgh, Neo-Norman with square tower. Window repairs. £1,000
  • Rorison Memorial Church, Dalserf, South Lanarkshire. 1889, Church and halls in simple early Gothic with powerful square tower and Spire. General repairs. £1,000
  • Maxwelltown West Church, Dumfries. 1867, james Barbour, Neo-Gothic with spire. Repairs to spire. £3,000
  • Dundee West Parish Church. 1874, Gothic with steeply pitched roofs and dramatic, prominent steeple. Repairs to roof and steeple. £4,000
  • East Kilbride Old Parish Church. Built in 1774 with the four-stage tower and crown added 1818. External stone and window repairs. £3,000
  • St. Michael & All Saints, Edinburgh. 1867, Robert Rowand Anderson, a shrine to the Anglo-Catholic movement with stunning interior decoration including reredos by Burgess. Roof repairs. £3,000
  • St. Mary-on-the-Rock, Ellon, Aberdeenshire. 1870, superb example of the work of George Edmund Street, externally simple but incorporating narthex, nave and chancel. Roof and gutter repairs. £3,000
  • St. Mary of the Angels, Camelon, by Falkirk. Powerful brick box of 1960 by Gillespie Kidd & Coia with dramatic natural lighting from clerestory and rooflights. Repairs to roof and rooflights, clerestory and wallheads. £5,000
  • Kelvinside Hillhead, Glasgow. 1876, James Sellars, tall apsed church with interior by Peter McCregor Chalmers and notable stained glass. Repairs to slating, leadwork, gutters and down pipes. £5,000
  • Halkirk Parish Church, Caithness. 1886, Alexander Ross, Neo-Romanesque with square open cupola and wheel window. Repairs to stained glass windows. £1,000
  • Kilmarnock Old High Kirk. 1740, based on designs by John Gibb. Handsome classical church with austere exterior contrasting with pleasing interior. General repairs. £5,000
  • Kilmore Church, Dervaig, Isle of Mull. 1905, Peter McGregor Chalmers. Small parish church on a rocky knoll with a rectangular knave, semi-circular apse and conically capped round tower. General repairs including roof and rainwater goods, walls and windows. £5,000
  • Kintail Parish Church. 1856, Alexander Messer, simple rectangular church with round-headed windows and galleried interior. Re-slating and re-harling. £2,000
  • St. Peter's, Linlithgow. 1928, Dick, Peddie and Todd, miniature Byzantine Greek cross church with a central dome. Roof and wall repairs. £1,000
  • Neilston Parish Church. Traditional T-plan, altered to rectangular plan 1798, with three-sided gallery and Gothic traceried window. General repairs, including roof and rainwater goods, stonework, harling, stained glass windows and rot eradication. £6,000
  • St. Modan's, Rosneath. 1853, David Cousin, in simple Gothic style with notable stained glass. General repairs, including roof and rainwater goods, walls and windows. £5,000
  • St. Mary of Wedale, Stow. 1876, Wardrop & Reid of Edinburgh, ornate Gothic church with three-stage pinnaeled spire sitting on an elevated site. Repairs to spire. £3,000
  • St. Andrew's, Strathtay, Perthshire. Simple Gothic church of chancel (1888) and nave (1919) and octagonal tower. Windows by Willement. Window repairs. £1,000
  • St. Congan's, Turriff. Elegant church of 1862 by William Ramage with a slender Gothic western tower. Repairs to stained glass rose window. £3,000
  • St. Ninian's Priory, Whithorn. Simple rectangular hall, church of 1822 with later 19th C square tower. Repairs to stained glass windows. £2,000