St Andrew's Church, The Square, East Linton

St Andrew’s Church in The Square, East Linton, was originally built as a Free Church, with construction beginning in 1843 and an enlargement taking place in 1857. It is now a Church of Scotland. The building stands on a street corner and has a tower and gallery stair added in 1880, along with an adjoining earlier hall.

The church is constructed of squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, while the sides and rear are of random whinstone rubble. The window bays are slightly recessed to the north, and there is a corbel table to the eaves and cornice.

The tower and porch, a three-stage design, contains the main entrance, which is within a shallow projecting porch. It features engaged columns with decorative Neo-Romanesque capitals and a moulded round arch above a double door with six diamond panels. A string course sits above, followed by a plate-traceried rose window and another string course with an ornamental stepped corbel table. A louvred bipartite window with a column mullion is set within a round-headed panel that also contains a clock. The roof is covered in grey slates, topped with a finial and weather vane. A lean-to gallery stair projection is located to the right of the tower and incorporates two narrow round arched windows. A three-sided stair turret rises above in the re-entrant angle, featuring narrow arched windows on each face and a polygonal grey slate roof.

To the right of the tower is a two-storey gallery stair block, recessed, with a column-mullioned bipartite window at gallery level. A bay to the left showcases two round-arched windows at ground floor level and a tripartite window with columned mullions above. The gable ends to the north and south have three round-headed windows stepping down to the south at ground floor level, while three standard-height windows are located on the first floor. All round-headed windows have 4-pane glazing. The roof is covered in grey slates with straight skews.

The entrance to the main body of the church is via the vestry, a single-storey projection to the east with a crowstepped gable added in 1887. The rear elevation has two tall windows with brick relieving arches. A single-storey heating chamber adjoins the rear of the building. The vestry has a brick stack and a die to the east end gable.

The interior is plain, incorporating a panelled gallery inserted in 1880 that runs along three sides. Stained glass is present in the south windows.

The adjoining church hall, originally a school, dates back to 1846. This is a single-storey, three-bay hall constructed of random whinstone rubble with sandstone dressings. It has an entrance in the east gable end wall, with sash and case windows in each bay featuring a 12-pane lying glazing pattern. The roof is covered in red pantiles with straight skews, and there is a brick wallhead stack to the south elevation.