St Leonards Episcopal Church, Dobbies Road, Bonnyrigg is a Grade B listed building in the Midlothian local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 March 1997. Church.

St Leonards Episcopal Church, Dobbies Road, Bonnyrigg

WRENN ID
mired-railing-nettle
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Midlothian
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
7 March 1997
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

Hippolyte J Blanc, 1890. Chancel added 1894. Rectangular-plan, extended to be cruciform, hall church with gabled principal elevation and belfry to gablehead. Transept to southeast and chancel to northeast. Snecked bull-faced ashlar sandstone with polished and droved ashlar dressings. Lancet windows; long and short quoins. Rectangular-plan rendered church hall to southeast.

SOUTHWEST (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: hood mould over tall, point-arched, tripartite window with tall central light. Clasping gabletted buttresses to terminals. Gablehead belfry and bell.

SOUTHEAST (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: 5-bay with projecting single bay transept to right of centre. Hood-mould with label stops over moulded round-arched doorway to outer left; deep-set, 2-leaf boarded door. Single window in each bay to right. Transept: hood-mould over bipartite window with oculus above; ashlar cylindrical stack to outer right; boarded door flanked by single windows to left return; single window to right return. Bipartite window with circular pane above in bay to outer right.

NORTHWEST (SIDE) ELEVATION: 6-bay with slightly advanced 4-bay original block to right. Tall, gabled bay (incomplete transept) to left of centre with (blinded) slit window to gablehead. Bipartite window with circular pane above in bay to outer left. Single window in each bay to right of centre.

NORTHEAST (REAR) ELEVATION: Gabled. Hood-mould over tripartite point arched and trefoil plate traceried window with shorter central light and quinfoil window above; buttresses to outer left and right. Latin cross to gablehead. Single window to projection to left.

Leaded stained glass windows. Grey/green slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles and vents; ashlar coped skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods with

decorative brackets.

INTERIOR: (seen in 1997). Timber boarded roof with exposed arched bracing; timber panelled barrel vault to added chancel to northeast with timber panelling to dado rail height; stone chancel arch; stone transept arches to side walls of chancel; timber panelled altar with round-arched tripartite window above to northeast wall; point-arched tripartite, stained glass window to southwest, Mayer & Co, Munich and London, 1890; stained galls window to southeast, William Wilson, 1961; portable font; timber pews and chair stalls; decorative timber gothic organ case to manual organ set in southeast transept.

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