Hownam Church And Graveyard

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 07/11/2007 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Hownam NGR NT 77762 19275 Coordinates 377762, 619275 — Rebuilt after fire damage, James Pearson Alison, 1907, incorporating earlier fabric (see Notes). 3-bay, T-plan, early English Gothic style church with Arts and Crafts detailing, prominent gabled porch and W gable bird-cage belfry with pagoda roof and ball finial. Harled and washed with diagonally droved sandstone dressings. Base course; bracketed eaves. Pointed-arch windows and doors in porch and vestry and on W gable with hood moulds and label stops. Y-traceried windows with chamfered margins. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: entrance porch on S elevation with pronounced splayed walls; 2-leaf recessed timber-boarded door with strap hinges in chamfered margin. Vestry and Roxburgh aisle to N, mainly of 1907, also with splayed walls. Fixed pane leaded lights with coloured borders. Ashlar-coped skews with moulded skewputts. Welsh slate roofs and zinc ridge. Cast-iron rain water goods. INTERIOR: largely dating from 1907 but with vestiges of medieval round-headed doorway in S wall (now blocked). Wide arch at NW corner, opening onto Roxburgh aisle, with original box pews. Trussed open wooden roof. GRAVEYARD: originally to S and E of church, extended to N in 20th century. Gravestones date from 17th century until present; several stones set into exterior walls of the church including 17th century headstone in E gable, red sandstone 18th century monument to the Hall family and fragmentary 18th century monument with columned niche with entablature and broken pediment, both on S wall. WALLS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: rubble walls; gates at SE corner. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The church is situated in a bend the Kale Wat

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.