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Examples of Grants Awarded

Below is a list of grants for repair or conservation reports awarded in recent years:

Grants Awarded 2011

  • St John's Episcopal, Alloa. Geometric Gothic design with broach spire, 1869, by Robert Rowand Anderson, woodwork and screen by Lorimer and glass by Kempe. General repairs. £5,000
  • Balbeggie United Free Church. Simple rectangular church of 1831. Grant towards conservation report. £500
  • Carmyllie Parish Church. Original church with belfry of 1609 altered in 18C and early 19C and alterations and greatly enlarged 1874 by McLaren & Aitken, Architects of Dundee. General repairs. £3,000
  • Cruden Parish Church. Country church of 1776 with addition in 1833 of stair towers with conical roofs. Grant towards conservation report. £1,000
  • Cullen Methodist Church. Simple early 20th century stone church in the sea town of Cullen. Repairs to windows. £1,500
  • St Mary's Episcopal, Dalkeith. Built in 1845 by the 5th Duke of Buccleuch, designed by William Burn and David Bryce like an English University chapel. Repairs to gutters and rainwater goods. £5,000
  • Polwarth Parish Church, Edinburgh. Splendid example of late 19th- and early 20th-century Arts & Crafts Gothic by Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, 1901, with the tower by James Jerdan & Sons, 1913. General repairs. £1,000
  • St Salvador's Episcopal, Edinburgh. Design of 1937 by Tarbolton and Ochterlony based on the medieval church of St Monans in Fife. Repairs to tower and spire. £5,000
  • St Francis Xavier's RC, Falkirk. Hall church with dramatic entrance façade by architect A R Conlin, 1961. General repairs and repairs to clerestory windows. £3,500
  • St Mary's Episcopal, Gatehouse of Fleet. Simple stone church with painted margins built for the United Presbyterian Church in 1864, Episcopalian since 1909. Masonry repairs. £1,715
  • St Joseph's RC, Helensburgh. Cruciform late-Gothic style church in red sandstone with light, white interior, 1912, Charles Menart. Grant towards conservation report. £1,200
  • Innerleithen Parish Church. Idiosyncratic Gothic by F T Pilkington, 1864, chancel added by J McIntyre Henry in 1889. General repairs. £3,000
  • Glenaray & Inveraray Parish Church. Centre-piece of the planned town, a double church by Robert Mylne, 1805, housing English and Gaelic congregations. Roof and masonry repairs. £4,000
  • Inveravon Parish Church. Simple rectangular church of 1806, remodeled in 1876 by Alexander Marsdhall Mackenzie; notable Pictish stones. General repairs. £3,000
  • Kirkmichael Parish Church. Rectangular, rendered church with bellcote and plain venetian window in gable, 1791. Repairs to masonry. £2,000
  • Kirn Parish Church. Designed by P MacGregor Chalmers and built 1906-7 in a Romanesque style with square tower topped with a pyramidal roof. Repairs to masonry. £2,500
  • St Columba's RC Cathedral, Oban. Highly distinctive, pink granite cathedral with a lofty tower, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in 1932 in the neo-Gothic style. Masonry repairs. £5,000
  • St Mirin's RC Cathedral, Paisley. Neo-Romanesque in style with an airy arched interior, 1931, Thomas Baird. Repairs to roof, masonry and internal plaster. £5,000
  • Pencaitland Parish Church. Outstanding example of a Scottish parish kirk of the 16th or early 17th century with later additions. Masonry and drainage repairs. £5,000
  • Port of Menteith Parish Church. Gothic style church with square tower on the shore of the Lake of Menteith, 1878, by John Honeyman. General repairs. £4,000
  • New Life Centre, Prestwick. Former St Cuthbert's Parish Church, 1834, by David Bryce in Tudorbethan style. General repairs. £3,000
  • Torthorwald Parish Church. A white T-plan kirk of 1872 incorporating stones from an earlier church. Ceiling repairs. £1,000
  • Wick St Fergus Church of Scotland. Simple Gothic rectangle with quoins and pinnacles and corner tower and spire, John Henry of Edinburgh, 1820-30. Roof, masonry and window repairs. £2,500

Grants Awarded 2010

  • New Wellwynd Parish Church, Airdrie. Classical church, 1834, with Ionic pilasters and pediment topped with octagonal bell-tower. General repairs. £2,000
  • Holy Trinity Episcopal, Ayr. Outstanding Gothic Church by J L Pearson, 1888, with gables and aisles, and a square tower. Stone repairs. £2,000
  • Culross Abbey, Torryburn and High Valleyfield Parish Churches. Three linked churches: the medieval Abbey Church with 19th century alterations, the early 20th century hall church of Torryburn and the church at High Valleyfield created from two 1920s semi-detached miners' cottages. Conservation report. £1,500
  • Meadowside St Paul's Parish Church, Dundee. Gothic Church with a fine spire, 1852 by Charles Wilson, stained glass by Jones & Willis and Alexander Russell. General repairs. £4,000
  • St Salvador's, Dundee. Church in early Arts & Crafts Gothic with glorious painted interior, G F Bodley, 1868. Repairs to masonry. £5,000
  • Gillespie Memorial Parish Church, Dunfermline. Tudor Gothic church with a broad gable front with octagonal buttresses rising into pinnacles, 1848-9 by Andrew Balfour. £3,000
  • Holy Trinity Episcopal, Dunoon. Nave and chancel Gothic church by John Henderson, 1847-8; narthex and tower added 1896. General repairs. £5,000
  • Leith Free Church (Elder Memorial), Edinburgh. Arts & Crafts church with Gothic details by Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, 1899. Grant towards conservation report £1,000.
  • St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral, Edinburgh. Perpendicular Gothic building by James Gillespie Graham, 1814; chancel by Buchanan & Bennett, 1895; nave extended and heightened by Reid & Forbes 1932. Roof repairs. £3,000.
  • Fogo Kirk. A rare example of a traditional Presbyterian church, mostly dating from 1683, with box pews, small plain glass windows and two laird's lofts, entered by outside stairs. Grant offered on condition that only second-hand Scotch slates are used. £4,000.
  • St John's Episcopal, Forres. Italianate church with campanile of 1841 by Patrick Wilson; murals by William Hole, 1906-11. Mural restoration. £1,000
  • Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Roman Catholic Church, Girvan. A plain Gothic structure of 1860 with a huge prow-like porch added in 1959 by Stevenson & Ferguson. Plaster repairs. £1,500
  • St Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Anderston, Glasgow. Decorated Gothic style church by Pugin & Pugin, opened for worship in 1898. Roof and masonry repairs. £4,000
  • St Paul's RC Church, Glenrothes. Trapezoid-shaped white painted church with tall roof light above altar, 1957, Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. General repairs. £4,000
  • St Anthony's Roman Catholic Church, Govan. Italian Romanesque style church by John Honeyman, 1877-9 with campanile. Roof and masonry repairs. £4,000
  • St Andrew's, Inverurie. A rectangular building, designed by John Smith, 1842, with a perpendicular Gothic façade. General repairs. £5,000.
  • Kirk Yetholm Parish Church. Gothic church with tower of local whinstone with cream sandstone dressings, 1832 by Robert Brown. Repairs to windows and stonework. £4,000
  • Greyfriars, Kirkcudbright. Eighteenth century T-plan church, remodelled by Peter MacGregor Chalmers, 1922. Masonry and window repairs. £1,000
  • Kirkmichael, Netherton and Glenshee Parish Churches. Group of simple country churches. Grant towards conservation report £1,500.
  • Largoward Parish Church. Window repairs. Simple rectangle of 1835 with sash-and-case windows and a largely unaltered interior with box, gallery and pulpit. £500
  • St John's Parish Church, Largs. Romanesque 4-bay rectangular church with tall tower, 1886, Archibald J Graham. Roof and masonry repairs. £4,000
  • St Angus's Episcopal, Lochearnhead. Plain Gothic style church with nave, chancel, porch, vestry and gabletted belfry, 1888. Repairs to masonry. £3,000
  • St Peter's Episcopal, Peebles. Early church (1837) by William Burn with Gothic façade, porch and chancel added in 1882 by Hay & Henderson. General repairs. £3,000
  • Renfrew Old Parish Church. Early Gothic style church by John Thomas Rochead, 1861-2, with chancel by P MacGregor Chalmers, 1908. Repairs to masonry. £5,000.
  • Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Wigtown. Simple brick-built Gothic church of nave and apse by J Garden Brown, 1879. Roof and masonry repairs. £2,000

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