Galashiels Parish Church, Scott Crescent, Galashiels

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 24/05/1979 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Galashiels NGR NT 49179 35775 Coordinates 349179, 635775 — Hay and Henderson, 1881; addition of steeple in 1886. Church Hall addition by Waddell and Young, 1927. 6-bay, rectangular-plan red sandstone Early Decorated Gothic Revival church with commanding tower and spire to SW; advanced 3-bay buttressed transepts; geometric tracery; hoodmoulded 3- and 4-light pointed arched windows, large 5-light pointed arched window to N gable over arched entrance porch with equilateral arched doorpiece. Rose window to S wall. Vestry to N linked to halls to W by 9-bay colonnaded glazed cloister. Square-plan 4-stage tower: bi-partite pointed arched geometric tracery and louvered windows; corbelled parapet with corner gargoyles; prominent crowstepped pediments over bipartite columned ventilators; hexagonal needle spire. Stugged coursed ashlar; smooth rybats. Base course, moulded eaves course to aisles and transepts, corbelled eaves course to clerestory. Clear glass and stained glass windows, part glazed timber porch doors; boarded doors. Pitched graduated slate roof; terracotta ridge tiles; stone slates to porch. Stone skews; cast-iron rainwater goods; decorative lion-head hoppers. INTERIOR: central nave with paired aisles and side transepts divided by double rows of polished Peterhead pink granite foliate capital columns. Finely coursed grey sandstone ashlar with red stone mouldings. Open timber ceiling. Pitch pine pews. Mosaic pavement to aisles by Hawley of Edinburgh. The pulpit and organ console were moved from the Willis organ screen to the transepts in a 1948 remodelling scheme. Stone font. HALL: 3-bay principal (N) entrance elevation; advanced shouldered buttressed central ba

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.