Penicuik Free Church, Peebles Road, Penicuik

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 22/01/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 09/03/2000 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Penicuik NGR NT 23579 59504 Coordinates 323579, 659504 — F T Pilkington, 1862-3. Truncated square-plan Rogue Gothic church, with square-plan rising to octagonal tower at NE; 2 canted side apses to N and S. Steeply-pitched slated roofs. Stugged coursed ashlar sandstone, with bull-faced dressings, polished to margins. Battered bull-faced base course; some bull-faced reveals. Pointed arch openings. Gables surmounted by decorative finials. TOWER: battered and buttressed square-plan 3-stage highly decorative bell-tower rising to octagonal at belfry level adjoining principal elevation to right; porch to 1st stage of E elevation with cusped pointed arches on squat column to NE, with stiff-leaf capitals and decorative brackets; pointed-arched, shouldered doorway with blind tympanum; 2-leaf diagonally-boarded timber door. String course dividing stages; band course at impost level of belfry openings. Unfinished aedicules and louvered pointed-arch openings with trefoils in arch-heads, in alternating facets at belfry level. Clock faces surmounted by carved angels at N, E and S. Corbelled engaged columns with stiff-leaf capitals clasping angles. Modillions and deep foliate eaves cornice. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: entrance gable, with tower recessed to right (see above). Narthex centred at ground, comprising 4-arch arcade with clustered columns on bull-faced plinths, each with differing foliate capitals, surmounted by 3 quatrefoil windows, surmounted in turn by 4 pointed-arch cusped lancet windows, rose window in gablehead surrounded by quatrefoils and cinquefoils. Bull-faced voussoirs hugging eaves. N ELEVATION: canted apse to right, with gablet

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.