Hawick Congregational Community Church And Halls, Bourtree Place

James Pearson Alison, 1893-4. T-plan, Early Gothic-style church oriented SE-NW, with slim colonnaded towers flanking entrance gable and attached single-storey, irregular-plan halls. Squared, snecked yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Stone-mullioned windows, segmental-arched to aisles and hall, trefoil-headed to gallery, and cinquefoil-headed to principal front and transepts; chamfered margins; hoodmoulds to principal windows and door. 2-stage, gabletted buttresses.

CHURCH: 6 stone steps to 2-leaf, timber-boarded door in pointed-arched, recessed, multiple-chamfered architrave at centre of gabled principal (NW/Bourtree Place) elevation, with single flanking lights; 3 tall lancets above; small, tripartite window in gable apex. Full-height, 2-stage, pavilion-roofed, finialled, octagonal towers flanking entrance gable, with open, trefoil-headed colonnades at upper stage; lateral buttresses to outer left and right. Secondary (SW) elevation with tripartite, Y-traceried window to gabled transept at right; 3 bays to left with tripartite windows at ground floor, bipartite windows above, and modern ramp to door breaking into left ground-floor window. Piend-roofed, canted bay to centre of rear (SE) elevation. Gabled transept to left of NE elevation.

INTERIOR: T-plan layout with panel-fronted, sloping galleries over three sides supported on slender cast-iron columns, predominantly with timber casing in the form of 4 shafts. Tapering timber corbels. Exposed timber beams; shallow-vaulted, timber-boarded ceilings. Tongue and groove panelling to dado height. Dark timber pews with chamfered detailing. Panelled rectangular pulpit with plain, balustraded side stair. Large organ in apse, 1925. Plain timber-boarded floors. Timber-mullioned stained-glass screen to narthex with Gothic-patterned ceramic floor tiles; twin stone stairs with decorative cast-iron balustrades and polished timber handrails leading to gallery.

HALLS: single-storey, 3-bay hall adjoining left of NW elevation of church. 7 stone steps to 2-leaf, timber-boarded door in shouldered architrave to right. Tripartite window flanked by bipartite windows. Louvred, gabletted, spirelet vent to ridge of roof. INTERIOR: tongue and groove panelling to dado height; painted, timber-boarded ceiling with painted timber beams and scrolled corbels to main hall; plain corridors to service areas at rear.

Fixed, geometrically patterned, stained glass in leaded lights to church; 2-pane fixed glazing to halls. Grey slate roof with metal ridges. Ashlar-coped skews. Cast-iron rainwater goods.