39 Fountain Place, Lasswade

David Bruce, 1875, with later alterations and additions; converted to housing, 2000. Rectangular-plan buttressed Gothic church with gable front (NE) elevation, 4-stage tower to left (E) angle and square-plan addition to rear (S).

CHURCH: droved concrete blockwork (brick addition) with concrete dressings; hoodmoulds to front elevation window and 3rd stage openings of tower; chamfered surrounds to windows; slab copes to buttresses; kneelers to gabled skews; dentilled eaves course to side elevations.

TOWER: continuous angle buttresses to first 3 stages; band course between 1st and 2nd stages; band course between 2nd and 3rd stages; cill course to 3rd stage; dentilled cornice with clocks on all faces to 4th stage; angle pinnacles and battlements.

NE (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3-light plate traceried window to centre of gable block; trefoil window to gablehead above. Hood-moulded over point-arch doorway at 1st stage of tower; 2-leaf boarded door; point-arched window to SE face; slit window to 2nd stage; slit window to SE face, louvred point-arched opening to each face at 3rd stage; clock to each face at 4th stage.

SE (SIDE) ELEVATION: 5-bay with bay to outer right as 1st stage of tower. Pointed arch windows to each bay, subdivided horizontally due to flat conversion, velux roof lights above each bay; buttresses between each bay.

SW (REAR) ELEVATION: new paired central lights for flats.

NW (SIDE) ELEVATION: regular 6-bay with point-arched window to each bay, subdivided horizontally due to flat conversion, replacement glazing in each, 3rd from right shortened to incorporate new entrance door; buttress between each bay.

Many replacement windows, including laminated safety glass, obscured glass, some leaded glass still remaining. Grey slate piended roof with modern velux windows and roof vents; concrete coped skews with skewputts; cast-iron rainwater goods.

INTERIOR: not seen, 2000. Currently undergoing complete internal refurbishment into 8 flats.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, GATES AND RAILINGS: square plan concrete gatepiers, cap and cornice. Linked to a further pair by low, coped concrete quadrant walls, decorative wrought-iron gates and railings with wheel and foliate motif.