St Josephs R C Church, Rosetta Road, Peebles

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/03/1995 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Peebles NGR NT 24793 40726 Coordinates 324793, 640726 — 1858. Plain Gothic aisleless 5-bay church with single bay chancel and 2-storey L-plan presbytery attached. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings. CHURCH: ashlar coped base course; windows with loop-tracery or open-trefoil heads, chamfered arrises. E (ROSETTA ROAD) ELEVATION: gable of chancel projecting from taller gable of nave; lateral buttresses. Simple curvilinear 4-light window in deeply chamfered pointed-arch frame. Lateral buttresses; ashlar cross at chancel apex; wrought-iron cross at apex of nave. Link block of presbytery to left (see below). N ELEVATION: stepped buttress between each bay; window to each bay. Left bay of nave with small projecting gabled side chapel; large open-trefoil windows in gablehead and to returns. Centre right bay with projecting gabled porch; pointed-arch hoodmoulded doorcase with square (uncarved ?) labelstops; blind trefoil in gablehead; wrought-iron finial; lateral buttresses. W ELEVATION: rendered. Oculus at centre at ground; pair of 2-light trefoil-headed windows above gallery level; quatrefoil above at centre. Square buttressed apex (formerly base for bellcote ?) with wrought-iron cross. S ELEVATION: 3 bays of nave to left; presbytery adjoined to right. Leaded windows. Grey slates with fish-scale bands; cusped terracotta ridge tiles; square fleche with pagoda roof. Ashlar coped skews, corbel skewputts. INTERIOR: plain braced open timber roof. Panelled gallery to rear supported on pair of square chamfered timber columns. Pointed ashlar arch frames chancel; grey marble altar and reredos. Side chapel to N. Limited amount of stained glass.PRESBYTERY: regular fenes

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.