Congregational Church, Scott's Place, Selkirk

The Congregational Church, built in the later 19th century, is located in Selkirk and features later additions and alterations. It is a rectangular gothic hall church with a vestry situated to the southeast. The church is constructed from squared whinstone with red sandstone dressings, although whinstone rubble is visible on the northeast and southeast elevations, also with red sandstone dressings. A base course is present, and the windows are tall and narrow with pointed arches.

The northwest elevation, facing Scott’s Place, is gabled with angle buttresses featuring sawtooth and gablet details. A tripartite window is prominent, with a taller central light, and a plaque is positioned in the gablehead. The southwest elevation, facing Dovecot Park, has six bays, each containing a window, except for the bay on the outer left, which has a gabled projecting porch. A hoodmoulded opening reveals a two-leaf boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. The vestry is set back on the outer right, featuring a window centrally, a boarded door with wrought-iron hinges to the left, and a window to the right. The northeast elevation has six regularly spaced bays, each with a window. Shoulder-arched windows are found in each two-bay group on the outer left side of the vestry.

The windows have leaded lights with a coloured border, and the vestry’s northeast elevation windows are timber sash and case windows with four panes. The roof is slate, with lucarnes on the southwest side, and a 19th-century skylight is located on the outer left side of the northeast elevation. Terracotta ridge tiles and terracotta cresting adorn the porch ridge. Coped ashlar skews support an ashlar cruciform finial on the northwest gable, and an ashlar coped stack is present on the gablehead of the nave and the southeast elevation of the vestry.

Inside, the church has two aisles with timber pews and brass umbrella stands. A boarded dado runs along the walls, which are plastered and have a cornice and a deep, coombed ceiling. A rose window is placed on the southeast side. A raised section for the minister provides a pointed-arch seat with buttoned velvet cushioning and a panelled timber front. A simple pine pulpit is centrally located in front of the minister's seat. The communion table is made of simple oak, with the inscription "This do in remembrance of Me" carved on the front. An ashlar font is found on the northeast side, alongside a timber font dedicated to the memory of those killed in the 1939-45 war. Brass curtain poles and curtains are in the timber precinct around the main entrance. The vestry contains a timber chimneypiece.

The boundary walls are constructed from whinstone rubble with red sandstone coping, accompanied by cast-iron railings. The gatepiers are square, droved ashlar with stop-chamfered edges and pyramidal coping.