Graveyard and Boundary Walls, Caddonfoot Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/10/1998 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Caddonfoot NGR NT 45069 34762 Coordinates 345069, 634762 — David Rhind, 1861, extended by same architect, 1875; further additions and alterations. Gothic-detailed, rectangular-plan church with gabled porch and later lean-to addition to SW; lower, polygonal apse to SE; gabled sandstone belfry to NW; gabled porch to NE; flat roofed WC block in rear re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked polished whinstone; red sandstone ashlar dressings; coursed render to rear addition. Raised base course; dentilled eaves; buttressed angles throughout (gabletted with gabletted pinnacles to nave). Stugged quoins; stugged long and short surrounds to pointed-arched, chamfered openings (lightly droved in part); sandstone mullions; chamfered cills. SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 4-bay nave. Projecting, gabled porch in bay to outer right with steps to 2-leaf boarded timber door; decorative iron hinges; chamfered surround with pointed-arched hoodmould, foliate label stops; carved plaque with Latin inscription centred in gablehead; 3-light glazing row in later lean-to addition slightly recessed to left? Large, Y-traceried windows in remaining 2 bays recessed to outer left. Lower, 5-sided apse slightly recessed to outer right with plate-traceried windows centred in bays to SW and S. NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: 2-bay. Large, Y-traceried windows in both bays at ground; circular window CENTRED IN GABELHEAD bell and bell rope in place. Shouldered-arched window in lean-to porch addition recessed to outer right. Boarded timber door in flat-roofed addition slightly recessed to outer left. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 4-bay nave. Square-headed window in gabled, L-plan porch in bay off-set to right of centre; large, Y tr

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.