Abbey St Bathans Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/06/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Abbey St Bathans NGR NT 75852 62281 Coordinates 375852, 662281 — Site of late 12th century Cistercian priory. Former priory church (in part) converted to parish church mid 17th century; repairs 1675, 1699; internal alterations 1719; 1st glazed 1726; bell installed in earlier tower 1820; heavily re-worked 1867-68 and porch and present tower erected; windows/doors re-worked (plate tracery added); stained glass inserted 1868. Plain Romanesque style comprising rectangular-plan, 3-bay nave, later single storey porch to SW, square-plan 2-stage tower and spire to NE (1867). Harl-pointed rubble whin and sandstone to nave; cream sandstone dressings. Rubble quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to lightly droved, round-arched openings; windows recessed within (trefoil-headed panels with quatrefoil details above). Whinstone rubble porch; cream sandstone dressings. Sandstone bracketed eaves; stugged long and short surrounds to openings; round-arched columnar doorpiece. Whinstone rubble 2-stage tower; cream sandstone string course dividing floors; sandstone brackets beneath corniced eaves; gabled, sandstone doorpiece; voussoir arches to pointed-arched openings. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 2-leaf, round-arched boarded timber door in single storey porch recessed to right of nave; surrounding doorpiece with flanking columns (scalloped capitals); keystoned, voussoir arch. 3-panelled window centred in nave advanced to left; surmounting finial. 2-stage tower recessed to outer left. S (SIDE) ELEVATION: 4-panelled window in bay to outer right; 2 panelled window off-set to left of centre; single window in piended porch advanced to outer left. Remains of wallhead sundial to outer right.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.