Kirknewton Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 21/07/2006 Local Authority West Lothian Planning Authority West Lothian Parish Kirknewton NGR NT 10596 67046 Coordinates 310596, 667046 — Circa 1750; additions and alterations by Brown and Wardrop, 1872. T-plan Gothic Church with short saddleback tower to W and gable-front main (N) elevation. Squared snecked rubble stugged grey sandstone to tower and principal elevation, rubble sandtone to rear. Droved ashlar dressings. Windows in stop-chamfered surrounds. Chamfered base course, string course above entrance level. Single-storey halls to rear. N (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: advanced central bay with three lancets to ground level and hood-moulded curvilinear-tracery above. Flanked by recessed entrances to either side. Hood-moulded Gothic entrances with boarded timber doors reached by 5 steps. Piended dormers with bipartite trefoil-headed windows over. Advanced gabled outer bay to left with single lancet and arrow loop over. W ELEVATION: single gable with triple lancets to ground and bipartite trefoil-headed window in square opening above. S ELEVATION: later central gable, pair of round-headed openings to ground, each with 2 trefoil headed shafts and quatrofoil light. Louvred gablet ventilators. INTERIOR: timber truss roof on stone corbels with boarded ceiling. TOWER: squat square-plan tower in 3 stages with arrow-loop to base of front elevation. Single lancets to 2nd stage and a pair of lancets to the apexes; saddle back roof. HALLS: Single storey 7-bay piended hall adjoining to SW corner of church. 3 pairs of segemental headed openings with square headed door off centre to right. Zinc or cast-iron lattice glazing. Grey slate. Stepped skews, cruciform finials. BOUNDARY WALLS: sandstone rubble with roughly semi-circular copes. Square-plan gatepiers. — Kirkn

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.