St Baldred's Episcopal Church, Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick

St Baldred's Episcopal Church, built in 1861 to a Norman style design by John Henderson, stands on Dirleton Avenue, North Berwick. The church was extended to the north and west in 1863. In 1884, Seymour and Kinross made significant changes, relocating and raising the eastern apse and inserting a chancel, along with a clergy vestry to the north. Further additions came in 1890 when Seymour and Kinross added a south aisle with a second apse and moved the belfry from the west end. A choir vestry was added to the north in 1909 by James Glass, followed by a porch to the south in 1916 designed by R S Lorimer, and alterations to the north aisle in 1931.

The church is constructed of pink squared and coursed bull-nosed masonry with ashlar dressings, and is roofed with red fishscale tiles and fretted clay ridge tiles, with plain copings. Moulded Norman arches feature at door and window openings, resting on scalloped capital columns and imposts. Narrow arched windows are set within recessed panels.

The south side features seven bays, with a deep gabled porch at the second bay from the west. The doorway arch has chevron moulding and carved floral decoration on the recessed inner arch, with scallop ends. A stone cross finial and gablet skewputts are present, along with a corbelled parapet to the aisle, linking imposts to the window surrounds, and a moulded angle buttress at the east end.

The east end has a pair of apses, with corbelled eaves and higher ridges than the main body of the church. A base and cill course encircles the apses. The south aisle apse has a door in the west re-entrant angle, with two openings above to the east on the south side, and three linked, higher openings at the east end. The north apse to the chancel is broader, with an additional string course above the base and five linked openings to the east. A fine metalwork cross finial tops the north apse, which also supports a belfry featuring gabletted openings; one single opening to the north and south, and moulded pairs to the east and west, with diaper incised in the gable heads.

The west end has recessed aisle bays, with a single Norman window and cill course to the south gabled bay. An advanced centre gable features a Norman doorway with chamfered arrises to the recessed jambs, and three linked, stepped windows above, with a cill course stepping down at the sides. A stone cross finial tops this gable.

The north side has a gabled clergy vestry abutting the east side, with a central doorway flanked by small openings to the east gable and an arched gable head opening. A moulded stack is located at the west gable end. A flat-roofed, tripartite dormer is set into the main roof to the west, with a flat-roofed choir vestry below, projecting and adjoining the clergy vestry. Two gables of the north aisle extend to the west, with single windows and blind oculi in the gable heads.

The interior features whitewashed walls, a red ashlar arcade with scalloped column caps, and an open timber collar beam roof. Geometric inlaid tiling is found in the centre aisle and on the south side. A unique marble inlay, combined with fine enamel tiles, decorates the main apse (1884). The main altar, crafted by Seymour and Kinross in red Dumfries-shire sandstone, is complemented by a stone pulpit and chancel parapet with Gothic carving from 1903. Choir stalls and panelling above the pulpit are the work of H O Tarbolton, executed by Scott Morton and Co. An angel screen in the south apse was designed by J S Richardson in 1912. The south apse was altered to create a Lady Chapel in 1921, and the north aisle became the All Souls? Chapel. Stained glass, dating to circa 1861 and created by Ballantine and Son, is found in the north apse and on the south side. A wall monument from 1843, originally in the north aisle, was incorporated in 1861. Arched double oak porch doors with carved panels by Meredith-Williams, executed by Clow Brothers circa 1926, provide access. Chancel tiles are the work of Field and Allan, from 1884.

A low boundary wall, constructed of gablet-coped rubble, runs alongside the church, featuring small ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal caps.