St Quivox Parish Church, Auchincruive, South Ayrshire.Ī simple gabled building with ‘birdcage’ belfry. In the middle of the 18th century piended roofs, and for larger spans platform roofs, were introduced, but they were never as common as gabled roofs. Early vernacular churches were often, it appears, thatched, but the greater availability of slate during the 18th century resulted in this roofing material coming into general use.
#GABLE ROOFS IN CHURCHES WINDOWS#
Later 18th century buildings often had round-headed windows, and in the early 19th century plain pointed windows made an appearance. 17th and early 18th century churches of this type usually had low walls, steeply-pitched roofs, and small rectangular windows. Secession churches did not have belfries. They were usually on rectangular or T-plans, with gabled or piended roofs, and usually had belfries, if built for the Church of Scotland. Such buildings were usually constructed by local masons and wrights (carpenters). The term ‘vernacular’ is used here to describe buildings with little or no ornament, or architectural pretension. This section is by no means irrelevant to church maintenance: the detailing associated with different architectural styles can have profound implications for ease of maintenance.
This is followed by a discussion of the ways in which basic forms can be ‘dressed up’, and elaborated, to suit changing fashions, and to convey the different messages which denominations wish to convey – wealth frugality rationality romanticism being up-to-date being traditional employing ‘good’ architects indifference to ‘good’ architecture competing in grandeur with other denominations indifference to other denominations, and so on. The first part of this section looks at simple ‘vernacular’ buildings, of traditional construction, in which architectural expression is minimal. So far, in this approach to church buildings, I have been concerned primarily with the basic formswhich underlie the generality of ‘traditionally-built’ churches.
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