Gatepiers And Gravestones, Heriot Parish Church (Church Of Scotland) Including Graveyard Walls

J M Wardrop, 1874. 5-bay, T-plan Early Decorated church in 13th century gothic style with projecting transepts and prominent advanced tower with gabled and finialled bellcote to E gable; gabled ancillary vestry accommodation to SW and small porch to re-entrant angle to NW. Hoodmoulded pointed trifoliate-headed arched windows; Large geometric hoodmoulded tracery window to N transept; 2 lancet windows to S (transept) and W gable ends (with cinquefoil to W); arrow slit windows and decorative carved stone cross finials to gable apexes. Red volcanic stone rubble; blonde sandstone stugged and droved chamfered quoins and margins; render to W elevation. Base course to porch, banded eaves course.

Margined diamond pane leaded glazing; 6-pane timber sash and case window to vestry. Pitched slate roofs; sawtooth stone roof to bellcote; wide sawtooth sandstone skews; beaked skewputts; stone ridges. Mixture of cast-iron and plastic rainwater goods. Bronze cockerel weathervane to bellcote.

INTERIOR: polygonal arched braced ceiling on beaked stone corbels over symmetrical nave with central aisle and side transepts. Painted walls with droved chamfered sandstone window reveals. Timber pulpit, pitch pine pews, some box pews with doors and integral tongue and groove dado panelling to walls. Four-centred arched 6-panel timber doors, barrel vaulted porch. Octagonal carved stone font.

GRAVEYARD WALLS, GATEPIERS AND WALLS: 18th century stone memorials attached to S elevation include arched gabled headstone and pedimented stone with winged angel head and inverted egg and dart border, 18th and 19th century stones to churchyard. Predominantly rubble stone walls, some concrete blockwork to E and W. Rusticated square stone gatepiers with wrought iron memorial gates dated 1914-1919.