St Mungo's Church, High Street, Penicuik

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 22/01/1971 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Burgh Penicuik NGR NT 23680 59963 Coordinates 323680, 659963 — Probably Sir James Clerk, dated 1771, enlarged at rear and side elevations, 1837 and 1880. Single storey classical Georgian square-plan church with Doric portico. Droved sandstone ashlar, squared and snecked rubble to rear. Round-arched windows to principal elevation. Base course; eaves course. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6-bay, near-symmetrical facade; advanced 3-bay Doric tetrastyle portico at centre, comprising recessed 2-leaf, 6-panel timber door, formerly used as entrance, centred at ground, with date '1771' inscribed above, flanked by part-infilled round-arched windows, glazed above door height; clock centred in pediment, added 1840, surmounted by urn and flame finials at sides, crucifix at apex. Large round-arched windows to outer left and right. Recessed entrance wing to right, comprising doorpiece with raised margins and corniced lintel, lintel incorporating tooled panel with Latin inscription; modern 2-leaf, 4-panel timber door, with glazed upper panels, to left of centre at ground; round-arched window to right of centre at 1st floor. NW ELEVATION: 4-bay; windows in 2 bays to left at ground and above at gallery floor; advanced 2-bay wing to left, comprising 2-leaf, 4-panel timber door with 2-pane rectangular fanlight, to outer left at ground, with '1800' inscribed in lintel; window to left of centre above. vertically-boarded timber door with glazed panels, centred at ground to re-entrant angle to right. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: 3-bay, comprising regular fenestration at ground, with tall round-arched window breaking eaves in gabletted dormerhead, centred at gallery floor, flanked by bipartite segmental-arched windows

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.