St Andrew's Church, The Square, East Linton

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 28/03/1990 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Burgh East Linton NGR NT 59211 77189 Coordinates 359211, 677189 — Built as Free Church, begun 1843, enlarged 1857. Now (1988) Church of Scotland. Street elevation; tower and stair to gallery added 1880, adjoining earlier hall. Squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Random whinstone rubble at sides and rear. Window bays slightly recessed to N; corbel table to eaves and cornice. TOWER AND PORCH tower and gallery stair 1880. Entrance in central, advanced, 3-stage tower. Doorway in shallow projecting porch; engaged columns with decorative Neo-Romanesque capitals, moulded round arch above, 6 diamond-panels to double door. String course above; plate traceried rose window. String course above with ornamental stepped corbel table. Louvred bipartite with column mullion in round-headed panel with clock. Grey slates to helm roof; finial and weather vane. Lean-to gallery stair projection to right of tower with 2 narrow round arched windows. 3 sided stair turret above in re-entrant angle with narrow arched windows to each face; grey slates to polygonal roof. 2-storey gallery stair block recessed bay to right with column-mullioned bipartite at gallery level. Bay to left with 2 round-arched windows at ground floor; tripartite with columned mullions above. Gable ends of N and S returns with 3 round-headed windows stepping down to S at ground, 3 of standard height at 1st floor. 4-pane glazing to round-headed windows. Grey slates, straight skews. Entrance to body of church via vestry; single storey projection to E with crowstepped gable added 1887. S ELEVATION: 2 tall windows at rear with brick relieving arches. Single storey heating chamber adjoined at rear. Grey slates, straight

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.