Hawick Congregational Community Church And Halls, Bourtree Place

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 18/11/2008 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Hawick NGR NT 50530 14895 Coordinates 350530, 614895 — James Pearson Alison, 1893-4. T-plan, Early Gothic-style church oriented SE-NW, with slim colonnaded towers flanking entrance gable and attached single-storey, irregular-plan halls. Squared, snecked yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Stone-mullioned windows, segmental-arched to aisles and hall, trefoil-headed to gallery, and cinquefoil-headed to principal front and transepts; chamfered margins; hoodmoulds to principal windows and door. 2-stage, gabletted buttresses. CHURCH: 6 stone steps to 2-leaf, timber-boarded door in pointed-arched, recessed, multiple-chamfered architrave at centre of gabled principal (NW/Bourtree Place) elevation, with single flanking lights; 3 tall lancets above; small, tripartite window in gable apex. Full-height, 2-stage, pavilion-roofed, finialled, octagonal towers flanking entrance gable, with open, trefoil-headed colonnades at upper stage; lateral buttresses to outer left and right. Secondary (SW) elevation with tripartite, Y-traceried window to gabled transept at right; 3 bays to left with tripartite windows at ground floor, bipartite windows above, and modern ramp to door breaking into left ground-floor window. Piend-roofed, canted bay to centre of rear (SE) elevation. Gabled transept to left of NE elevation. INTERIOR: T-plan layout with panel-fronted, sloping galleries over three sides supported on slender cast-iron columns, predominantly with timber casing in the form of 4 shafts. Tapering timber corbels. Exposed timber beams; shallow-vaulted, timber-boarded ceilings. Tongue and groove panelling to dado height. Dark timber pews with chamfered detailing. Panelled re

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.