St Andrews Episcopal Church Including Boundary Walls And Gates, Church Street

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 21/05/2008 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Innerleithen NGR NT 33226 37026 Coordinates 333226, 637026 — C E Howse, 1904. Single storey, 6-bay, simple rectangular-plan Arts and Crafts style church with small late 20th century pitched-roof meeting hall addition to NW. Harled with red sandstone window margins and margined quoins. Pointed arch entrance doorway with hoodmould and scrolled label stops; pointed arch windows. Bell-cast gabled roof. Diamond-pane leaded glazing; two-leaf painted, boarded entrance door. Graded grey slates with timber-bracketed overhanging eaves and clay ridge tiles. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: good Arts and Crafts decorative scheme. Round arched ceiling with 4 curved timber trusses on delicate red sandstone corbels. Simple decorative rood screen dividing nave and timber panelled sanctuary. Timber pews, pulpit, altar and Arts and Craft style chairs. Mural memorial to E gable dedicated to J.G Ferguson by William Blacklock of Edinburgh School of Art, 1905, depicting Virgin and Child and 'Adoration of the Magi'. Stained glass: single light over the altar donated by Isabella Ballantyne. Single lights either side of chancel dedicated to Robert Milne Ballantyne, signed by J S Hamilton 1920. Triple wrought iron pendant lights. Internal entrance lobby with symmetrical vestry leading to later session room addition. — Ecclesiastical Building in use as such. St Andrew's Episcopal Church is a small Arts and Crafts style church with fine quality detailing and well detailed interior prominently sited on a corner on entering Innerleithen form the North. Little is known of the architect C E Howse, this is his only known work in Scotland, but the pure Arts and Crafts design of the church is o

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.