Christ Church, Teindhillgreen, Duns

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/12/1994 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Duns NGR NT 78592 54248 Coordinates 378592, 654248 — William Hay of Duns, 1857. Romanesque aisle church standing on levelled terrace above road; tower at entrance with squat broach spire, lower chancel at E end and meeting room at W end forming L-plan. Burial ground to E. Cream squared, snecked and stugged sandstone. Round-headed windows with channelled moulding around upper half, chamfered cills. TOWER: to W bay of S side. 2 stages. Simple roll-moulded Romanesque doorway to S; paired flanking columns with cushion capitals, chevron moulding to inner arch. Coped base course rises to impost level; window immediately above to W, lighting stair to gallery. 2nd stage with paired louvred windows to each outer face. Massive machicolated parapet. Very squat broach spire with lead flashing and fishscale slates; wrought-iron weathervane finial. S ELEVATION: 6-bay nave with tower advancing from left bay (W end projects beyond); windows to each 5 bays of aisle; shallow clerestorey with 2 rectangular windows slotted between roof of aisle and eaves. Lower 3-bay chancel set back to E, with windows to each bay. Set back to left, half-gable of meeting room, with large round-headed stop-chamfered doorway and 2-leaf boarded door. E ELEVATION: 3-light window with perpendicular tracery in hoodmoulded 2-centred arch to projecting gable of chancel, cross finial; gable of nave above. Blank return of S aisle to left; to right, half-gable of vestry with cat-slide roof in re-entrant angle with aisle; boarded door and window. Set back to right, blank wall of organ housing. N ELEVATION: from left: chancel and vestry blank; 3 bays of aisle with 2 clerestorey windows as above; advanced blank ga

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.