St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Chapel Brae, West Linton

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 04/11/2010 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish West Linton NGR NT 14796 51798 Coordinates 314796, 651798 — 1851-57 with later 19th century additions by Hay and Henderson. T-plan, Gothic church with undercroft and central bell-cast fleche occupying steeply sloping site. Grey squared and snecked rubble with chamfered ashlar dressings. Pointed-arch openings. Chancel addition to N forming T-plan. Timber panelled door at SE re-entrant angle; lean-to porch with timber door to street elevation to SW corner angle. 2 pairs of cusped single lights to SW elevation; 5 single-lights with quatrefoils to SE gable elevation. 2-light geometric traceried window to chancel. Diamond-lattice leaded glazing to smaller windows (undercroft). Grey graded slate. Banded fish-scale slate pattern to fleche. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: coller-beam and arch-braced roof to nave and scissor-braced roof to chancel. Timber chancel screen with intersecting tracery. Octagonal carved stone font. Fine stained glass by C.E. Kempe of London (1893) depicting Supper at Emmaus and St Thomas Aquinas at the SE window; Moses and Serpent, and Cruxifiction within the chancel; and Virgin and Child to the NW window. — Place of worship in use as such. A well-detailed and prominently sited Episcopal church of distinctive vertical scale and massing, possibly demonstrating Germanic influences, with a fine collection of stained glass by distinguished London-based stained glass artist C.E Kempe. The earlier building, which featured a truncated chimney at the middle of the SW flank, was one of the first 'Gladstone' Churches built by local landowners aiming to revive the Episcopalian tradition in Scotland. The original building served primarily as a school r

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.