St Anne's Episcopal Church, Westgate, Dunbar is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 5 December 1977. Church. 4 related planning applications.

St Anne's Episcopal Church, Westgate, Dunbar

WRENN ID
unlit-balcony-hazel
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Constituency
Lothian East MP: Mr Douglas Alexander (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
5 December 1977
Type
Church
Address
St Anne's Episcopal Church, Westgate, Dunbar, EH42 1JL
OS grid reference
NT 678 790
Coordinates
56.00334, -2.51767
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Anne's Episcopal Church in Westgate, Dunbar, was designed by Hew Montgomerie Wardrop around 1886 and executed by Sir R Rowand Anderson between 1889 and 1890, although it was never completed. The church is built in the Gothic style using snecked, rake-jointed sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings and features a red tiled roof. It has a plain skew with gablet skewputts and a nave running east-west without aisles. There is a truncated tower with a pyramidal roof to the north at the crossing point, a porch at the northwest, and a small chapel at the southwest.

On the east gable, there are two clasping and two stepped buttresses, along with base and string courses. A central niche is decoratively canopied, with a rose window above it. Lancet windows with mouchettes flank the niche between the buttresses, and there is a cross finial. The chancel bays to the north and south feature cusped round arched windows.

The north front has a massive adjoining tower with stepped angle buttresses and two-light arched, traceried windows at a low level. There are two pointed windows in the nave to the west, and a steeply gabled crowstepped porch to the west with a pointed arched entrance. The west gable is unbuttressed and has Y-mullioned four-light pointed windows with cusped mouchettes and hoodmoulds.

St Margaret's Chapel, designed by architect Gilbert Ogilvie in 1919, is set back from the west gable and abuts a rubble rigg wall to the south. It features a pointed, two-light traceried window.

Inside, the church has plaster and sandstone ashlar dressings, with a continuous nave and chancel comprising five bays. The nave features an open vault with a double tie beamed timber roof, while the chancel has a wagon roof. There is an oak rood screen with figures from 1896 by Willis, along with a carved oak pulpit, communion table, and rail.

The stained glass includes windows in the east gable from 1889-90 and two nave windows by Ballantine and Gardner from 1904, as well as two additional nave windows by Abbey Studio from 1945-46. Other windows are lead paned. The vestry room and organ are located in the tower through the chancel arch. The church also features a war memorial in St Margaret's Chapel, a coffered and painted ceiling, a sandstone aumbry, and an oak reredos, with stained glass by Butler and Bayne from around 1920.

Local climate

St Anne's Episcopal Church, Westgate, Dunbar receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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