Blackadder Church, Forth Street, North Berwick

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/05/1988 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Burgh North Berwick NGR NT 55405 85411 Coordinates 355405, 685411 — 1844. Major extensions and tower by Honeyman and Keppie 1889. Late decorated Gothic style L-plan church with tower and porch in re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked rubble; ashlar dressings. Slated roof, grey to church, green to spire. S GABLE: original entrance with roll-moulded surround, basket arched with hoodmould and label stops. Panelled double doors, cusped in upper panels. Miniature crenellation course above, between flanking buttresses. Tall late decorated windows; 3-light and 4-centred above with pointed 2-lights in flanking bays. String course at eaves level stepping over central bay. Angle buttresses with pedestal and pyramid finials. TOWER: E of S gable. Hoodmoulded bipartite at S with cusped tracery. Louvred belfry openings to all 2nd stage faces. String course above and below pointed arch openings. Pyramid spire with decorative wrought-iron finial. Single storey porch to E of tower in angle. 3 lancets and carved "tree of life" panel above with inscribed ribbon; crenellated parapet on decorative corbel course. Outer angle buttressed. Entrance on E side through 4-centred arched door set in rectangular panel, hoodmoulded with label stops. Double doors as above. E GABLE: detailed as S gable. Porch to hall intercepting at ground to N. N GABLE: tall, central arched panel recess with cusped circular window. INTERIOR: galleried (1889) on 3 sides. Decorative rafter and tie beam ceiling. Communion table centre N. Organ in panelled case brought from church at Fort William. Stained glass unattributed. Timber newel stair to S gallery in tower. Lower hall 1879, reconstructed for heating plant 1960. Low coped

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.