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
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