Edgerston Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 02/12/1993 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Jedburgh NGR NT 68461 11710 Coordinates 368461, 611710 — 1838 with late 19th century additions and alterations. Simple gabled gothic church. Squared and snecked cream sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Pointed-arch windows, deeply chamfered reveals, some with geometric Y-tracery; hoodmoulds. Base course. Vestry to rear with bull-faced margins and square reveals. E (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical, 3-bay. Broad slightly advanced gabled bay at centre with roll-moulded doorcase flanked by coped buttresses; 3 steps to 2-leaf 6-panelled door. 3-light traceried window above. Flanking bays with all lancet windows. E ELEVATION: broad, gabled bay; at centre, window of 3 lancets traceried at centre with 2 lights; tiny lancet above in gablehead. 4-steps to flush-panelled 2-leaf door at outer left. W ELEVATION: at centre, 2-light traceried window with bull-faced margins; to left, later boiler room addition with single-pitch roof and brick stack adjoined to wall; to right, projecting piend-roofed vestry with single window and shouldered stack on return wall to left. S ELEVATION: gabled bay to right, with ashlar pyramidally capped bellcote at apex; plain 3-lancet window at centre with tiny lancet in gablehead. Single storey of vestry to left, withdoor to right and window to left. Leaded, fixed diamond-pane windows; timber sash and case to vestry. Grey slate roof, overhanging eaves, exposed rafters. INTERIOR: panelled timber gallery above small enclosed timber narthex on E wall with reeded columns, approached by open stair from N door (presumably the Edgerston/Rutherfurd loft). Shallow boarded barrow-vault with transverse ribs. Late 19th century stained deal pews, dais and oc

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.