Stenton Church

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,

1. 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 end. Painted benches, clover

finials. Simple reredos. Traceried timber communion

table; panelled polygonal timber pulpit. Stained glass in

5-light by C E Kempe, 1888, Virgin, Child and Saints;

other windows by Ballantine and Gardiner, of 1892, 1898

and 1910.

GRAVEYARD WALLS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: stugged coursed

sandstone parapet wall with gable coping to S, rubble

walls to remaining perimeter. 2 sets of square ashlar

gatepiers with chamfered angles, moulded coping and

pyramid caps. 2 pairs of decorative wrought-iron gates.

Notable 18th century gravestones, particularly of mid

century date.