Parish Church, Whitekirk

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 05/02/1971 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Parish Whitekirk And Tyninghame NGR NT 59627 81524 Coordinates 359627, 681524 — 15th century parish church on cruciform plan, possibly incorporating earlier Kirk, with N aisle added 1832; S transept restored, by R Rowand Anderson 1894 and again by Robert Lorimer 1914-17, further restoration after suffragette fire. Coursed red sandstone. Pointed arch Y-traceried windows. Dominating square tower. S ELEVATION: large crowstepped porch with wide hoodmoulded pointed archway, imposts and battered angle buttresses, formerly bearing moulded pinnacles. Blind niches to buttresses and in weathered panel above archway. Rib vaulted porch. Metal studded 2-leaf doors. Arched nave windows with cusped Y-tracery. Crowstepped S transept to right of ashlar (Anderson 1894) and coursed stone (Lorimer) with ashlar battered angle buttresses and trefoiled oculus in gable head; pairs of square headed, 2-light windows with perpendicular tracery on W return. Buttressed chancel with 3-light traceried window in S wall. N ELEVATION: window to nave to outer right; crowstepped, projecting N aisle (1832) to left with cat slide roof and 2-light square headed windows as above. Crowstepped gabled transept to left with tripartite tracery, pyramid capped stair projection with set-offs adjoining NW angle of tower. Crowstepped, cat-slide roof to vestry in E re-entrant of transept with pointed arch doorway. Polygonal stack on raised base at eaves level to left. Deep-set chancel light flanked by battered buttresses. E GABLE: crowstepped with quatrefoiled oculus. W GABLE: pointed 3-light window; coped skews. CROSSING TOWER: 3-stage with dividing string courses and corbelled parapet. Pointed arch windows with simple Y- tra

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.