Midmar Parish Church

Description (exterior)

The church is rectangular on plan with a west porch, north aisle and east vestry/session house. It was built with roughly-tooled, coursed granite rubble in a style known as 'cherry-cocking'. The roofs are slated and the nave has small roof lights at the west end to light the gallery inside. There are two round, metal roof ventilators along the ridge line. 

The west gable faces the entrance driveway. The large gabled porch is a later addition and has a round-arched door and rectangular windows to the sides. The gable has three pointed-arch (lancet) windows with latticed glazing. The central window has been shortened to accomodate the later porch. In the gablehead is a small quatrefoil window mounted in a circular recess. On the apex is a rectangular bellcote with stumpy pinnacles and a ball finial. 

The south elevation has five fairly large round-arched windows with simple but elegant Y-tracery and latticed glazing. The east gable has a single round-arched window with tre-foil tracery. Attached to the gable is a rear entrance porch with rectangular door and window and a small vestry and session house. It has a tall chimney on the gable and a small rectangular window. There is an attached lean-to store at the east end. The north elevation is mostly featureless apart from a round-arched window at the west end. There is also a narrow aisle at the east end with a round-arched window. This was built onto the church to accomodate a new pipe organ.