Trinity Church, High Street, Jedburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/03/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Jedburgh NGR NT 65121 20825 Coordinates 365121, 620825 — 1818; church offices, James Pearson Alison, 1899. 2-storey 5-bay square symmetrical Italianate palazzo church. Cream sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and coursed stugged ashlar facade. Round-headed windows with cills. SE (FRONT) ELEVATION: 2-storey 5-bay, regular fenestration; outer bays advanced as pavilians. At ground, central 3-bays of polished ashlar, door with rectangular fanlight at centre; 3-bay Tuscan screen with entablature between pavilions; outer engaged half-columns. Inner return walls of pavilions with doors to vestibule. Cill course at 1st floor. Moulded cornice with rectangular panels above central (inscribed 1818) and outer bays. Base course To left a small single storey polished ashlar polygonal link with a door giving access to hall and church offices. NE AND SW (SIDE) ELEVATIONS: 3 bays grouped towards rear, lighting main hall of church. NE side with blocked door at ground to front. NW (REAR) ELEVATION: 2 taller windows grouped to centre; door at ground to left. Timber corrugate-iron roofed hut attached at centre (perhaps heating chamber). Stained glass leaded windows by Kemp Benson & Co, Glasgow 1902. Steep piended roof with grey slates. INTERIOR: single storey vestibule with stairs at either end; pair of handsome marble memorial tablets above end doors to Alexander Shanks and Peter Young, and William Nicol, all past ministers. Brass plaque bydoor in memory of Richard Cameron brought from Free Church (now demolished). Plain flat-ceilinged main hall of church with banked gallery running round 3 sides, supported on square moulded timber columns. Deal tongue and groove dado and seating

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.