Coldstream Parish Church, High Street, Coldstream

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/06/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Coldstream NGR NT 84243 39779 Coordinates 384243, 639779 — Built 1795; rebuilt 1906. Dick Peddie architect. Bell turret and cap of 1st church survive. Simple classical style. Basic rectangular plan with projecting tower, chancel, offices and porch. West front has projecting ashlar tower in 4 stages, flanked by 2 windows in body of church. 1st stage with bold angle quoins: door at west, with round headed and thermal windows above. Squat 2nd stage. 3rd stage with Tuscan columns at angles supporting cornice and clock in each face. 4th stage Early 19th octagonal turret with alternate blind and louvred arched openings, and facetted roof. Body of church snecked rubble with ashlar dressings and angle quoins. 5 bays with round-headed lugged-architraved and keystoned windows (no architraves to south). Circular window over projecting square pilastered porch with ball finials. Cornice, eaves band and die parapet (no cornice and plain parapet to south). Parapet rises to imitate shaped gables were it meets the tower. Large lunette in east elevation over lower block of meeting rooms and vestry. Interior: Tuscan columns on octagonal pedestrals support arches forming groin vaults in aisles and chancel, and barrel vault in nave. Early 20th century stained glass in east lunette. 3 stained glass windows of south aisle dated 1934, 1951, 1951. Early 20th century furnishings simple, except for minister's stall with octagonal canopy in Jacobean style. — Earlier church modelled on that of Eccles 5 miles west, to which present building betrays family resemblance.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.