Bonnyrigg Parish Church, High Street, Bonnyrigg

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 07/03/1997 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Bonnyrigg And Lasswade NGR NT 30802 65411 Coordinates 330802, 665411 — 1845 with later addition to rear. Rectangular-plan hall church with flanking triple gable aisles and 3-stage octagonal tower. Stugged and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Lancet windows; string courses between stages of tower; base course; long and short quoins. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-bay with central gabled bay, aisle wall set back to N and tower advanced to S. Hood-moulded and chamfered pointed- arched doorway in bay to centre; replacement timber door with pointed- arched fanlight above; single windows flanking doorway. Single window in bay to left. Square base to tower to outer right; single window set high in 1st stage; blank oculi to every other side of 2nd stage; louvered, pointed-arched openings to each side at 3rd stage; ashlar dressed clock face to every other side above; blind arcaded parapets between; octagonal copper spire above; cast-iron weather vane. S (SIDE ELEVATION): 5-bay with tower to left, triple gabled block to centre and modern, slightly recessed gabled addition to outer right. Tall window to centre bay. Circular window set high with non-aligned window at ground in bay to left of centre. Window at 1st stage of tower in bay to outer left; oculus at 2nd stage; louvered niche and clock face above; Tall window in bay to right of centre. 2 windows at ground and 1st floor in bay to outer right. INTERIOR: rectangular entrance vestibule; timber panelled roof with iron shafts marking aisles supporting pointed-arched beams; timber panelled gallery along E wall with access via stairwell in tower to NE; decorative cast-iron balusters and timber handrail to stair; boarded dado.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.