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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1977
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
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.
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