Gavinton Parish Church and Churchyard, Main Street, Gavinton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 06/02/1996 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Langton NGR NT 76685 52208 Coordinates 376685, 652208 — James Maitland Wardrop, 1872. Church with square-plan tower, spire, nave and vestry, sited on raised site to W of Gavinton village. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar hoodmoulds and droved ashlar stop-chamfered margins, to S elevation; rubble to N elevation; bull-faced sandstone with polished ashlar dressings to tower and spire. Base course. Sawtooth coped, battered buttresses. TOWER: pointed-arch boarded door with hoodmould at ground/1st stage of tower to outer right. String course dividing each stage; small window at 2nd stage; pointed-arch window with hoodmould at 3rd stage with timber louvring; eaves course with winged gargoyles to each corner. Tall octagonal tapering spire with gabled, crocketted lucarnes and pinnacles; string course at half-height; weathercock at apex. S ELEVATION: 7-bay. Buttress to centre. Pointed-arch windows with hoodmoulds to 2 bays to each side. Single storey vestry and entrance in bay to outer left with timber-framed porch on sandstone (now partly rendered) wall; boarded pointed-arch door. W ELEVATION: gabled end of single storey vestry with four-centre-arched window to centre. Pointed-arch window to side elevation of entrance, set back from W elevation. Lean-to addition in re-entrant angle between vestry and nave, to N with four-centre-arched boarded door to W. Rose window flanked by pointed-arch single windows to W gabled end of nave, with wallhead coped stack to N. N ELEVATION: pointed-arch window to outer bays of nave; blank to centre bays. Small window to single storey lean-to addition to outer right. Half-conical roofed octagonal engaged tower to re-entrant angle of nave

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.