Blackadder Church, Forth Street, North Berwick is a Grade B listed building in the East Lothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 26 May 1988. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Blackadder Church, Forth Street, North Berwick

WRENN ID
gaunt-tin-barley
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
East Lothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
26 May 1988
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

  1. Major extensions and tower by Honeyman and Keppie 1889. Late decorated Gothic style L-plan church with tower and porch in re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked rubble; ashlar dressings. Slated roof, grey to church, green to spire.

S GABLE: original entrance with roll-moulded surround, basket arched with hoodmould and label stops. Panelled double doors, cusped in upper panels. Miniature crenellation course above, between flanking buttresses. Tall late decorated windows; 3-light and 4-centred above with pointed 2-lights in flanking bays. String course at eaves level stepping over central bay. Angle buttresses with pedestal and pyramid finials.

TOWER: E of S gable. Hoodmoulded bipartite at S with cusped tracery. Louvred belfry openings to all 2nd stage faces. String course above and below pointed arch openings. Pyramid spire with decorative wrought-iron finial.

Single storey porch to E of tower in angle. 3 lancets and carved "tree of life" panel above with inscribed ribbon; crenellated parapet on decorative corbel course. Outer angle buttressed. Entrance on E side through 4-centred arched door set in rectangular panel, hoodmoulded with label stops. Double doors as above.

E GABLE: detailed as S gable. Porch to hall intercepting at ground to N.

N GABLE: tall, central arched panel recess with cusped circular window.

INTERIOR: galleried (1889) on 3 sides. Decorative rafter and tie beam ceiling. Communion table centre N. Organ in panelled case brought from church at Fort William. Stained glass unattributed. Timber newel stair to S gallery in tower. Lower hall 1879, reconstructed for heating plant 1960.

Low coped parapet wall S and E, stepping down between piers, with wrought-iron gates and railings 1889.

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