Church Of Our Lady And St Joseph, High Street, Selkirk

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 11/12/1996 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Selkirk NGR NT 47107 28677 Coordinates 347107, 628677 — George Goldie, 1866 with later additions and alterations, including baptistery by K Veitch, circa 1965. Rectangular-plan simple gothic hall church with later baptistery to NE. Squared and snecked whinstone with stugged ashlar dressings (droved ashlar to chamfering); rendered baptistery; whinstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings to rear and side elevations. Flush long and short quoins; chamfered arrises; pointed-arch windows. SE (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: gabled with ashlar band courses at cill level, springing point, at collar height and apex. 2 windows with later crucifix between and ashlar bracket projecting from collar; gabled bellcote with bell at apex. Platform-roofed addition to outer right with ashlar coping and dressings; 2-leaf panelled door. SW ELEVATION: 5 regularly-disposed bays each with trefoil-headed window. NW ELEVATION: gabled with single storey half-piended addition at ground. Rose window to gable; 2 windows to addition; door to return SW elevation. Leaded windows. Slate roof. Wallhead coped stack to left slant of gable to NW. Coped ashlar skews. Cast-iron cruciform finial to gables. INTERIOR: plain. Timber pews. Boarded floor and ceiling with keel-shaped trussing. Stained glass to rose window (Madonna and Child) and to windows flanking altar. Modern timber panelled reredos. Modern timber lectern incorporating plaster/ashlar trefoil-headed arch supported on timber columns. Modern altar with 2-arched ashlar colonnaded base with timber top. Brass holy sacrament house and 4 twist-stemmed candleholders flanking. Modern timber bas reliefs Stations of the Cross. Statue of Jesus to niche to NE (

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.