39 Fountain Place, Lasswade

This is a rectangular-plan Gothic church, dating from 1875 and designed by David Bruce. It was converted into housing in 2000. The church has a prominent gable fronting northeast, and a four-stage tower set into the southeast angle. A square addition has been added to the rear, on the south side. The main structure is built of droved concrete blockwork, with a brick addition, and concrete dressings. The tower has continuous angle buttresses for the first three stages, with band courses separating the stages and a cill course to the third stage. A dentilled cornice features below the clocks on each face of the fourth stage, topped by angle pinnacles and battlements. The northeast elevation features a three-light plate traceried window at the centre of the gable, with a trefoil window above. A hood-moulded point-arch doorway with a boarded door is located at the base of the tower, alongside a point-arched window on the southeast face, and slit windows on the other faces. The third stage of the tower has louvred point-arched openings on each face, with clocks above. The southeast elevation has five bays, with the bay on the right outer edge forming the first stage of the tower; point-arched windows feature in each bay, which have been subdivided horizontally to accommodate a flat conversion. Velux roof lights are positioned above each bay, with buttresses between them. The southwest elevation features new paired lights for the flats. The northwest elevation has six regularly spaced bays, again with point-arched windows, similarly subdivided for the flat conversion. One window, third from the right, has been shortened to incorporate a new entrance door. Many of the windows have been replaced, some with laminated safety glass and obscured glass, although some leaded glass remains. The roof is grey slate, piended in style, with modern Velux windows and roof vents. The roof copes are concrete, with skewputts and cast-iron rainwater goods. The interior was not inspected in 2000, but is currently undergoing a complete refurbishment to create eight flats. Boundary walls, gatepiers, gates and railings are present, featuring square-plan concrete gatepiers with a cap and cornice, connected by low, coped concrete quadrant walls with decorative wrought-iron gates and railings incorporating a wheel and foliate motif.