Carrington Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/01/1971 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Parish Carrington NGR NT 31853 60592 Coordinates 331853, 660592 — 1710. Single storey, 3-bay, traditional T-plan church with square-plan tower. Random pink sandstone rubble with droved and polished dressings. Base course; moulded eaves cornice. Chamfered reveals; pointed-arched, diamond-glazed, Y-traceried window inserted by Thomas Brown, 1838; long and short quoins; boarded timber doors. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical. 3-stage entrance tower with spire advanced to centre; doorway (formerly leading to pulpit) to centre of ground floor with tooled lintel reading "1710"; 8-pane fanlight surmounted by ogee-arched louvred opening; small single pane window to left return. 3rd stage former dovecot, round-arched louvred opening to centre of each elevation; flightholes under eaves. Ironwork weathervane and cockerel to apex of spire. Windows to flanking bays to left and right; 2-leaf doorways flanking to outer left and right. 2 sundials symmetrically placed on left and right angles E ELEVATION: symmetrical; window to centre, remains of former window above. N ELEVATION: near-symmetrical; 3-bay; gabled bay to centre advanced with large pane, pointed-arched window to centre; infilled window below; window to right return; window to left return, flanked to right by 2-leaf door with 8-pane fanlight; flanking bay to right blank; bay to left infilled window to right of ground floor; infilled window with carved pediment to left of 1st floor. W ELEVATION: symmetrical; window to centre surmounted by large pane window. Predominantly pointed-arched, diamond-pane windows. Graded grey slate roof and grey slate ridge. Stone skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: mezzanined interior by Crighton La

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.