Linton Church And Churchyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/08/1977 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Linton NGR NT 77332 26227 Coordinates 377332, 626227 — 12th century Romanesque style nave and chancel church set on knoll; chancel added 1426; church altered 1616, 1774, 1813; porch added 1857; chancel rebuilt and church substantially restored 1911-12, Peter MacGregor Chalmers; repaired 1927, James Pearson Alison. Single storey church comprising rectangular-plan 3-bay nave with projecting gabled porch to S; 17th century birdcage bellcote to W; lower, rectangular-plan 3-bay chancel to E; lean-to vestry (1912) to N. Predominantly squared and tooled sandstone rubble (some plastic repairs to vestry); cream sandstone ashlar dressings. Round-arched openings to nave; chamfered cills. Chamfered reveals to square-headed chancel openings; chamfered cills. S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: nave comprising gabled porch projecting at centre with paired colonnettes with cushion capitals flanking square-headed opening; round-arched Norman tympanum with carved scene depicting bearded knight on horseback thrusting lance into jaws of 1 of 2 animals; ball-shaped and dogtooth banding forming round-arched frieze above; inscribed tablet in return to right with pilastered frame and broken scrolled pediment; single round-arched window in return to left. Inscribed tablet with pilastered frame and round-arched pediment off-set to left of centre; paired, round-arched windows with columnar mullions, cushion capitals and dogtooth banding beneath roll-moulded surrounds in bays to outer left and right. Chancel recessed to right with deep-set boarded timber door off-set to right of centre; engaged colonnettes with cushion capitals beneath round-arched, architraved surround; cusped detailing to 4-light, g

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.