St Baldred's Episcopal Church, Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/02/1971 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Burgh North Berwick NGR NT 54589 85310 Coordinates 354589, 685310 — John Henderson, 1861. Norman style church, extended 1863 to N and W. 1884 Seymour and Kinross moved and raised apse to E and inserted chancel, adding clergy vestry to N. 1890 Seymour and Kinross added S aisle with 2nd apse and moved belfry from W end. 1909 James Glass, choir vestry to N. 1916, R S Lorimer, porch to S. 1931, N aisle altered. Pink squared and coursed bull-nosed masonry with ashlar dressings. Red fishscale tiles. Fretted clay ridge tiles. Plain copings. Moulded Norman arches on scalloped capital columns and imposts to door and window openings. Narrow arched windows in recessed panels. S SIDE: 7 bays, with deep gabled porch at 2nd bay W. Chevron moulding to doorway arch with carved floral decoration on recessed inner arch and scallop ends. Stone cross finial and gablet skewputts. Corbelled parapet to aisle. Linking imposts to window surrounds. Moulded angle buttress at E end. E END APSES: paired, with corbelled eaves and higher ridges than body of church. Base and cill courses encircling. S aisle apse with door in W re-entrant angle and 2 openings above to E on S side; 3 linked, higher, openings at E. N apse to chancel broader with additional string course above base and 5 linked openings to E. Fine metalwork cross finial. Belfry on N apse, gabletted with arched louvred openings, single to N and S, moulded pairs to E and W with diaper incised in gable heads. W END: recessed aisle bays, with single Norman window and cill course to S gabled bay. Advanced centre gable with Norman doorway and chamfered arrises to recessed jambs. 3 linked, stepped windows above, with cill course stepping down at sides.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.