Stenton Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 05/02/1971 Supplementary Information Updated 27/02/2025 Local Authority East Lothian Planning Authority East Lothian Parish Stenton NGR NT 62199 74285 Coordinates 362199, 674285 — William Burn, 1829. Spiky gothic, T-plan church with 3-stage tower. Stugged, coursed pink sandstone with ashlar dressings; base course, chamfered reveals and hoodmoulded to pointed-arch and 4-centred openings. Perpendicular tracery to stone mullioned windows. Louvred, cusped 2-light to tower. Grey slates. TOWER: square, 3-stage tower adjoined to E gable end wall of church. Doorway to E, with 2-leaf studded and panelled doors, flanked by shafted angle buttresses; window to S side; canted stair bay set in re-entrant angle to N, with small window; set-offs to 2nd stage, with narrower cusped windows on 3 sides, polygonal angles extending up into attenuated pinnacles with gabletted finials above 3rd stage; 2-light windows to 3 sides of 3rd stage, with hoodmoulds continuing in string course; string course dividing upper stages. Parapet with arrow-slit details to each side. Main gable with angle buttresses and less attenuated finials; parapetted skews adjoining tower. W ELEVATION: buttressed gable with central 4-centred doorway flanked by raised and buttressed pilasters, linked tall 4-centre, 5-light window; door blocked 1892, but studded doors retained. Parapetted skews. N ELEVATION: gabled central N jamb flanked by 2-light windows. N gable detailed similarly to W gable, but with 4-light window and corbel at apex missing finial (1988). S ELEVATION: re-oriented to W, by J Jerdan, Edinburgh, 1892. White-washed walls, boarded dado; segmentally arched and ribbed ceiling. Neo-Jacobean lairds gallery in N jamb with coomb ceiling above. Panelled gallery front with cusp carving to E en

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.