Parish Church, Whitekirk

15th century parish church on cruciform plan, possibly

incorporating earlier Kirk, with N aisle added 1832; S

transept restored, by R Rowand Anderson 1894 and again

by Robert Lorimer 1914-17, further restoration after

suffragette fire. Coursed red sandstone. Pointed arch

Y-traceried windows. Dominating square tower.

S ELEVATION: large crowstepped porch with wide

hoodmoulded pointed archway, imposts and battered angle

buttresses, formerly bearing moulded pinnacles. Blind

niches to buttresses and in weathered panel above

archway. Rib vaulted porch. Metal studded 2-leaf

doors. Arched nave windows with cusped Y-tracery.

Crowstepped S transept to right of ashlar (Anderson

1894) and coursed stone (Lorimer) with ashlar battered

angle buttresses and trefoiled oculus in gable head;

pairs of square headed, 2-light windows with

perpendicular tracery on W return. Buttressed chancel

with 3-light traceried window in S wall.

N ELEVATION: window to nave to outer right; crowstepped,

projecting N aisle (1832) to left with cat slide roof

and 2-light square headed windows as above. Crowstepped

gabled transept to left with tripartite tracery, pyramid

capped stair projection with set-offs adjoining NW angle

of tower. Crowstepped, cat-slide roof to vestry in E

re-entrant of transept with pointed arch doorway.

Polygonal stack on raised base at eaves level to left.

Deep-set chancel light flanked by battered buttresses.

E GABLE: crowstepped with quatrefoiled oculus.

W GABLE: pointed 3-light window; coped skews.

CROSSING TOWER: 3-stage with dividing string courses and

corbelled parapet. Pointed arch windows with simple Y-

tracery to upper stages on all faces; small rectangular

stair lights, mostly blocked. Slate pyramid roof.

Wrought-iron cockerel weathervane.

INTERIOR: white washed, aisle-less nave with timber

barrel-vaulted ceiling; parquet flooring. Rib vaulted

chancel. Pointed stone barrel vault above chancel with

stone flagged floor. Simple carving to choir stalls.

Pink sandstone communion table by Lorimer, with oak

pulpit and lectern. W window stained glass by C E Kempe

post 1889; N aisle 4 lights by Kenneth Parsons, 1916,

with trefoiled S transept oculus. Decoratively carved

wall plaque in N transept, pink sandstone, post 1917, to

11th Earl of Haddington.

Rubble retaining wall enclosing church and graveyard

with yett pattern timber gates to S.