Edrom Church

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 09/06/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 06/11/2019 Type Ecclesiastical: burial avile/vault; burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; church Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Edrom NGR NT 82760 55835 Coordinates 382760, 655835 — 1737 (utilising old foundations and incorporating earlier fabric), restoration and additions in 1886. Cross-plan church with S transept (Blackadder vault, currently closed from main body of church) and gallery to N transept. Roughly squared and snecked sandstone with broadly-droved ashlar dressings; later additions stugged sandstone ashlar. Chamfered margins. S ELEVATION: 4-bay. Tudor-arched window with gabled dormerhead above eaves course to each bay, except bay to inner left. Gabled projection in bay to inner left (Blackadder vault) with panelled door at ground and point-arched window above; diagonal buttresses to SW and SE corners with ashlar plaque to head of each inscribed "Repaired by Sir John Home of Blackadder Baronet in the year 1696" to SE with base and canopy formerly with statue of saint, now empty, 1996; "Founded by Robert Blackadder Archbishop of Glasgow in the year 1499" to SW (now weathered and illegible), with eroded coat of arms below; window to outer right of E return and to centre of W return elevation. E ELEVATION: gabled with Tudor-arched cusp-traceried window; ashlar cruciform finial to apex. W ELEVATION: similar to E elevation, except with ashlar 2-stage corbelled bellcote at apex. N ELEVATION: complex arrangement. 5-bay. Gabled projection to centre with deep-set 2-leaf point-arched boarded door with hoodmould at ground; small Tudor-arched windows flanking; rose window to gablehead above; diagonal buttresses, with inscribed stone to NE buttress: "Restored and

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.