St James The Less Episcopal Church, Broomhill Road, Penicuik

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/08/1978 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Penicuik NGR NT 23193 59729 Coordinates 323193, 659729 — R T N Speir, architect, 1882, with Henry Seymour, draughtsman and supervisor; chancel addition by John Kinross and Harold Ogle Tarbolton, 1897-99, church hall by Eric Stevenson, 1978. Single storey and basement rectangular Gothic revival church on falling ground, comprising 4-bay nave with 2-bay chancel stepping down to E over vestry, with 2-stage square plan tower to SE. Rock-faced Marfield sandstone ashlar nave, stugged, rake-jointed and snecked sandstone chancel; tooled and polished dressings. Pointed-arch windows to nave, cusped windows to chancel. Base and cill course at nave; long and short quoins; some chamferred arrises. TOWER: advanced, crenellated tower in penultimate bay from right at S elevation, comprising recessed single storey lean-tos flanking at ground with windows centred to S, 2-light cusped window to left; vertically-boarded timber door to re-entrant angle at lean-to to right; 3-light mullioned window with cavetto moulding to right of centre at S face; carved armorial panel below belfry to E face; round-arched louvered openings with hoodmoulds and grotesque terminals, centred to S, E and W faces at belfry, tripartite at S and E; projecting blank ashlar panel centred at N face. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: gable with bargeboards, with later single storey 5-bay lean-to addition at ground, forming vestries, with tripartite window at centre, remainder bipartite; 4-light stepped window in gable; bellcote corbelled out at apex, breaking eaves, surmounted by Celtic cross finial; vertically-boarded timber door with cavetto-moulded cement hoodmould in recessed bay to right; church hall to outer right. N ELEVATION:

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.