Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick

The Star of the Sea, Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady, located on Law Road in North Berwick, was designed by Dunn and Hansom in 1879. It features an addition of a chancel and sacristy by John Kinross RSA in 1889, and a Lady Chapel to the north by R S Lorimer in 1901. This church is built in a simple Gothic style using squared Newcastle freestone with ashlar dressings. It has a variety of lead-paned and stained glass windows, a roof covered in purple slates with black terracotta ridge and gable cross finials, and plain copings with corbelled eaves at the nave and chancel.

On the west gable, there is a pointed moulded arched doorway with a hoodmould that continues as a string course to the angle buttresses. Above the doorway is a large traceried carved triangular window with trefoil tracery, flanked by cusped lancets below. The gable head features diminutive blind cusped slits, paired together.

The northeast elevation includes a timber bellcote from 1892, topped with a piended slate roof to the west. There are three paired cusped lancets on the east side, lighting the Lady Chapel on the south side of the nave.

The Lady Chapel projects to the north at the transept and features a tripartite rectangular light with tracery on the west side and a bipartite light on the east side. The north gable has a central buttress that bears a corbel for a statue, and there is an ogee detailed window above it. The roof is made of grey slate, swept at the eaves.

Inside, the church has a timber ceiling and an organ gallery at the west end. The nave measures approximately 70 feet by 20 feet and has a taller chancel accessed through a pointed arch opening, which features a pointed vault. The south organ gallery has an arched opening with pierced quatrefoils in the stone balustrade. The sanctuary floor is made of travertine marble, installed in 1971. A notable stained glass window in the Lady Chapel depicts "Mary, Star of the Sea," although the artist is not attributed.

The gate, designed by Archibald MacPherson in 1880, features pillars made of Amble stone and a decorative wrought-iron overflow and gate created by Bain and Co from Edinburgh.