Selkirk Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 11/12/1996 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Selkirk NGR NT 47244 28666 Coordinates 347244, 628666 — R Baldie, 1880. Early gothic church with 3-stage tower and steeple, nave, chancel, presbytery and hall. Stugged ashlar with polished ashlar dressings with droved ashlar to chamfering; squared whinstone with stugged ashlar dressings to side elevations. Base course; string course at impost level, stepping over windows forming openings at ground of bay to centre; string course defining each stage of tower; string course at cill level of gallery height, stepping over lancet windows in bay to right forming hoodmould; eaves course; point-arched openings. NW (HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: 3-bay with tower to left. Buttresses defining each bay. 2-leaf boarded door at centre in columned and hoodmoulded doorway; flanked by 2 narrow windows; quadripartite geometric-traceried window above with hoodmould; blinded arrow slit to gablehead. Paired trefoil-headed windows in bay to right. NE ELEVATION: 6-bay group with further single bay (hall) to outer left. Each bay defined by buttresses. Window to each bay except tower to outer left. TOWER: HALL: advanced; tripartite window in gabled addition to outer right with platform-roofed link section. SW ELEVATION: 6-bay, defined by buttresses, with advanced further bays to outer right (not seen fully, 1995). 2 paired windows in bay to outer left. Window to each remaining bay; door to outer right. TOWER: NW ELEVATION: bay to left. Blank at 1st stage; 2 paired trefoil-headed windows at 2nd stage; window at 3rd stage; sawtoothed buttress-heads at 4th stage; 2 paired openings at 5th stage with louvring; mutuled course defining tower from steeple. Steeple with quatrefoil-studded band course. N

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.