Gladsmuir Parish Church, Gladsmuir

Gladsmuir Parish Church, designed by William Burn in 1838, is a Romanesque cruciform church featuring a short two-bay nave, Douglas transepts, and a shallow projecting chancel. The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with a base course, hoodmoulds over the major openings, and deeply chamfered reveals around the round-arched windows.

On the south elevation of the nave, there is a projecting gabled porch with a round-arched doorway that includes nook-shafts and a roll-moulded arch. Above this, a shallow advanced bay contains a three-light window with stepped round heads and nook-shafts, which rises into an octagonal bellcote topped with a round-arched and saw-tooth ashlar roof. The hoodmoulds continue in a string course to gargoyles that project east and west of the gable buttresses. There are also two tall windows on the return elevations.

The east and west elevations feature twin gabled transepts, each with tall windows. The north elevation of the chancel has an advanced gable flanked by lean-to porches that have round-arched doorways. At the center, there is a low gable vestry that projects, with two windows above and a chimney on the gable. The roof is covered with Welsh slates, and the gablet coped skews are complemented by stepped buttresses at the angles.

Inside, the church was remodeled after a fire in 1886 by J Farquharson of Haddington. It features a timber panelled horseshoe gallery supported by cast-iron columns, which has been stripped to match the later panelled chair, altar table, and organ, all adorned with carved Gothic ornament by Scott Morton and Co., directed by M Ingram. The stained glass in the north and south windows includes a window in the south signed by A Ballantine and Gardiner of Edinburgh, erected in 1892 by Ainslie of Elvingston. The transept roof is ribbed and segmentally vaulted, supported by additional cast-iron columns, with a central ventilator.

The graveyard includes an ashlar coped rubble retaining wall and burial aisles for the Anderson and Glassell families to the north, featuring some notable 18th-century gravestones. The site also contains Gladsmuir Old Parish Church to the north, which has further memorials listed separately.

To the south, there are gatepiers and gates made of gablet coped ashlar, complemented by cast-iron gates.