Building record MAB38853 - MAISON DIEU CHURCH, BRECHIN

Former church, no longer in ecclesiastical use, built in 1891 and designed by Sir George Washington Browne (Edinburgh).

Former church, no longer in ecclesiastical use, built in 1891 and designed by Sir George Washington Browne (Edinburgh). This is a late classical-neo-Georgian revival building, with Greek detail at frontispiece on an elevated site. It is a rectangular 6-bay plan, having a 2-storeyed treatment and pedimented frontispiece at the centre of the west gable, a 3-bay pilastrade of doors bearing distyle in coupled antis portico of fluted Ionic columns, the main entablature of flanks threaded through as lintels of main windows, with small square windows above. The flanks are of plain coursed rubble, with small lower windows and large upper windows lintelled by the main entablature. A severe treatment, except at westmost bays which have lower bipartites with their own entablature. The tall tower is on the eastmost bay of the south flank, it is square with a domed octagonal belfry stage, louvred round-arched openings in Doric pilasters and has splayed sides blind with urns at angles. The hall is at right angles to the rear projecting south and has tripartites in gables.

A World War I roll of honour formerly in the church was relocated to Brechin Cathedral (MAB37041) in the 1980s when the church closed.

The setting is within a large churchyard with a dwarf boundary retaining wall. There are good main gatepiers, fluted on the inner face, panel-pilastered on the outer face, with panelled banded rustication. Short, plain banded, curved flank walls link the outer piers. These have ball finials. The foot-gate, lower down, has banded piers with ball finials.

ANTHONY ROBERTSON DESIGN LTD, 2019, ARCHAEOLOGICAL STANDING BUILDING SURVEY LEVEL 1 FOR THE CONVERSON OF MAISON DIEU CHURCH, L1 SBS (Bibliographic reference). SAB6530.

Record last edited

Jul 23 2026 6:42PM