Lilliesleaf Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/06/2003 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Lilliesleaf NGR NT 53920 25307 Coordinates 353920, 625307 — 1771; nave enlarged, belltower added and interior remodelled 1883 (see Notes); apse 1910; stained glass by William Wilson, 1966. Cruciform-plan church with 3-stage crenellated belltower. Squared and snecked rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings. String and band courses, part mutuled eaves course. Round-headed openings. Moulded and chamfered reveals, stone mullions. N ELEVATION: cross-finialled gabled elevation with large raised-centre tripartite window, further window on return to right and belltower (see below) in re-entrant angle to right. BELLTOWER: 1st stage engaged to S and E, timber door with semicircular fanlight and decorative ironwork hinges to N, band course above giving way to 2nd stage with glazed oculus to N and W, and datestone to N; 3rd stage with timber-louvered opening to N, E and W; all surmounted by crenellated parapet. W ELEVATION: blank gabled bay with ball-finialled truncated belfry at gablehead, tower (see above) in re-entrant angle to left. S ELEVATION: symmetrical. Conical-roofed apse to centre with 3 small windows, flanking slightly lower flat-roofed bays each with small window to outer return and further tall windows to outer bays. E ELEVATION: dominant Celtic cross-finialled gable to left with 2 small projecting gables, window on return to right and door (as above) in re-entrant angle under gabled porch; set-back bay to right with single window. Margined multi-pane glazing patterns some with decoratively-astragalled top light; stained glass to 3 small apse windows (see below). Grey slates. Ashlar-coped skews, stepped to N, beaked skewputts to E and W. Cast-iron downpipes wit

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.