Old Parish Church, Church Square, Duns

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/06/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Duns NGR NT 78631 53869 Coordinates 378631, 653869 — 1790, classical steeple; church largely rebuilt to similar pattern, retaining steeple, after fire; Wardrop and Reid, 1880. STEEPLE: droved cream ashlar sandstone with polished dressings. 3-stage square tower with octagonal belfry and ashlar spire. 1st 2 stages projecting from S elevation of church; divided by band course and surmounted by cornice and blocking course; base course, long and short quoins. Doorcase to front with raised margins and pediment; boarded door with wrought-iron hinges. Blank returns; 2nd stage with lugged frame to front containing sunken panel inscribed ERECTED 1790 DESTROYED BY FIRE 1879 RESTORED 1880. 3rd stage swept in from blocking course; each face with consoled open pediment above blind oculus; urn at each corner. Octagonal belfry with round-headed openings, blind and louvred alternately; cornice. Octagonal spire with wrought-iron weathervane finial. CHURCH: 2-storey rectangular hall with projecting gallery block to S. Cream sandstone, both squared and snecked and coursed, and droved and stugged; also some older dressed rubble. Polished ashlar dressings; base course; long and short quoins; moulded eaves. N ELEVATION: bipartite round-headed windows with chamfered arrises and stop-channelled mouldings. Projecting open pedimented range at centre with window at ground; arcaded tripartite window breaking into pediment at 1st floor; corresponding hoodmould aligning with eaves. 2-bay returns with windows to both floors. Left range with windows to both floors to right. Open pedimented porch at centre with chamfered angles corbelled to square and pilastered round-headed window with bracketed

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.