Hunterfield Road Church, Gorebridge

1. Rectangular plan, Gothic Revival church with truncated bellcote (originally a spire). Squared and snecked bullfaced sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band courses; pointed arched openings; angle buttresses with pinnacles.

SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bay; central entrance bay flanked by stair tower bays (bay to left is not stair tower); central gabled pointed arched doorway with gableted skewputts; nookshafts; hoodmould with foliate label stops; trefoil recess set in gablehead; 2 leaf boarded timber door, flanked by 2 small windows; 4 light traceried window with hoodmould and foliate label stops above; bracketed bellcote to apex (originally with spire); carved foliated corbels; gableted pointed arched openings with nookshafts, hoodmoulds with foliate label stops and trefoil recesses set in gableheads on all 4 sides. Paired windows to ground and 1st floor of flanking bays.

SE ELEVATION: 5 bay, with later additions to right. Paired windows at ground in bay to outer right; rose window in gable above; boarded timber door and window reached by stone steps from right to basement; windows in remaining bays. Earlier 20th century 3 bay gabled addition to right; comprising pointed arch doorway; boarded timber door; 2 pane fanlight; windows to flanking bays. Later 20th century timber lean to addition to outer right.

NE ELEVATION: rose window set in gable; simple stone finial; remainder obscured by roofs of later additions.

NW ELEVATION: 5 bay, with later additions to left. Paired windows at ground in bay to outer right; rose window in gable above; windows in remaining bays. Earlier 20th century addition to left with 3 windows in gable; 2 leaf glazed timber door to right return (obscured by later addition) harled later 20th century addition in bay to right with 2 large pane windows to right return; harled lean to addition to outer left with 2 windows and profiled steel roof; single window to left return.

Grey slate roof with lead ridge; stone skews. Cast iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: entered through porch to SW with stained glass screen; stair leading to gallery in S corner and small storage room in W corner. Nave and aisles; wagon roof supported on slender cast iron columns with floreate capitals; pierced timber screen, communion table and reredos with blind pointed arch supported on nookshafts, hoodmould with foliate label stops behind; replacement pulpit, lectern and organ; replacement baptismal pool to N corner. Hall to NE in process of refurbishment (1997); small modern meeting room to rear.

GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: octagonal gate piers with square base and gableted caps; cast iron gate with barley sugar uprights; tooled squared and snecked coped wall surmounted by matching cast iron railings along SW front; snecked sandstone rubble walls with semi circular coping to SE and NW.