Fortingall Parish Church
Fortingall Parish Church
Fortingall Parish Church is a Category B Church of Scotland church in Glen Lyon, Perth and Kinross, rebuilt in 1901–02 by Dunn & Watson on a medieval site beside the Fortingall Yew.
- Location
- Fortingall, Tayside
- Country
- Scotland
- County
- Tayside
- City / town
- Fortingall
- Address
- Fortingall, Tayside, PH15 2LL
- Postcode
- PH15 2LL
- Built
- 1901–02, on a medieval site; incorporates fabric of the earlier church
- Architect
- Dunn & Watson (William Dunn and Robert Watson)
- Denomination
- Church of Scotland
- Parish
- Fortingall
- Grade
- Category B
- Style
- Scots Gothic; Arts and Crafts interior
- Materials
- Harled walls with crowstepped gables; open barrel-vaulted timber roof
- Grid reference
- NN 742 470
- Opening hours
- Open by arrangement.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic Environment Scotland lists the church (LB12288, Category B, 5 October 1971) as Scots Gothic, harled, with crowstepped end gables: a chancel, nave with porch, and a late-eighteenth-century-type bellcote at the nave–chancel junction reproducing that of the previous church. The interior is Arts and Crafts, with original fittings and an open barrel-vaulted timber roof. Fragments of a cross-slab, a Celtic handbell, and a 1765 bell by Johannes Specht of Rotterdam are kept in the church. The listing notes that some Fortingall work ascribed to Dunn & Watson may relate to James M. MacLaren, whose practice they continued.
Scotland’s Churches Trust records the church on an ancient Christian site, with an oak-panelled interior, a chancel screen designed by Sir Robert Lorimer, and the belfry of the old eighteenth-century church standing in the churchyard. The congregation’s website is taylyonchurches.org.uk.