Free Church, Main Street, Garvald

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 02/05/1990 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Parish Garvald And Bara NGR NT 58671 70820 Coordinates 358671, 670820 — John Muirhead, dated 1843, plain church, with squat, late 19th century tower to E and porch to W. Red rubble sandstone, squared and snecked in later additions. Sited on ground falling to E and S. PORCH: gabled bay with pointed arched doorway, set at S end of crude lean-to vestibule, adjoined to gable end of church in late 19th century. Hoodmould to doorway with carved label stops and string course at impost level; deeply chamfered arris to surround; 2-light pointed fanlight, and 2-leaf, boarded doors with decorative hinges; consoled skewputts, carved corbels set obliquely to skew and finial. NAVE: 2 enlarged windows, made tripartite with timber mullions, to N and S sides, under eaves, with diamond pane glazing pattern; 5 bee bole-like recesses set at centre of S elevation at ground. Lean-to outbuilding adjoined to left of N side. E GABLE: 2 pointed arched windows to broad gable, with timber intersecting tracery and diamond pane glazing pattern; small rectangular windows flanking in outer bays and trefoil in gablehead; ball-finial. W GABLE: rectangular panel above lean-to, inscribed 'ERECTED 1843'; arched bellcote. TOWER: bull-faced coursed rubble sandstone; 2-stage with dividing string course and corbelled eaves course; small heating chamber at ground to N. Round arched hoodmoulded openings. Doorway to S, with 2-leaf boarded doors and decorative hinges. Narrow, arched, stone mullioned bipartites to each face of upper stage, with louvred openings. Slated pyramidal spire, with leaded flashings and ball and taper finial. RETAINING WALLS: rubble coped rubble retaining walls. — Early, if unexceptional, Free Chur

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.