Parish Church, Main Street, Athelstaneford

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/06/1991 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Parish Athelstaneford NGR NT 53290 77345 Coordinates 353290, 677345 — 1864, incorporating earlier fabric of 1870. Cruciform plan aligned E-W. Squared and coursed tooled ashlar with cream polished ashlar dressings. Base course, bracketted eaves, cusped dormerhead ventilator in roof. S ELEVATION: entrance through gabled porch in angle to left of S transept. Ornamented round arched Neo-Norman doorway with nook-shafts, carved panel above with monogram. 3 round arched windows flanking at left with hoodmoulds. 3 light pointed arched window with cusped tracery and hoodmould to trabsept. N ELEVATION: as above but with boiler-house to W, plain doorway to N. W ELEVATION: doorway to W gable in gabled porch with ornamented round-arch and nook shafts. 2 small round arched windows flanking in W gable. Glazed bulls eye window above. Corbelled birdcage bellcote to gablehead set diagonally with round-arched detail and pyramidal roof. E ELEVATION: canted apse with corbelled table and parapet and single lancet window with trefoil tracery adjoining chancel gable; 2-light window to each return, lean-to porch to N. Stained glass windows. Grey slates; polygonal roof to apse. Straight skews; cross finial to S. gable. Single wallhead stack to N. INTERIOR: simple interior, apse recently remodelled. Arch-braced, hammer beam roof. 3 stained glass windows by C E Kempe to S and E, memorials to Kinloch of Gilmerton family. BURIAL ENCLOSURE: in churchyard to S of Robert Blair (1699-1746) poet, minister 1731-1746. 2 rusticated piers with cornice and ornamental urns, linked by wrought-ironwork incorporating initials RMRB 1746. — Church on site since the 12th century. Kinloch of Gilmerton built a new church, man

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.