St Cuthbert's Episcopal Church, Slitrig Crescent, Hawick

George Gilbert Scott, 1857-8; vestry added by Robert S Lorimer and John Fraser Matthew, 1908. Early Decorated style church aligned NE to SW with steeply-pitched gabled roof, crow-stepped bellcote, bow-ended chancel, gabled porch, vestry adjoining NW elevation and gabled, pointed-arch nave windows breaking eaves. Squared, snecked whinstone with tooled and polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Deep, ashlar-coped base course; cill course; eaves course; wallhead corbel table to chancel and apse. Hoodmoulds with foliate stops to chancel and SW elevation; cross-shaped gable finials. Tabbed quoins, those to SW gable and porch with inset colonnettes; saw-tooth coped stop-chamfered buttresses; regular fenestration with tabbed, chamfered margins; predominantly bipartite pointed-arch lights to main body of church with quatrefoils to tympanums; trefoil-headed lights with flanking inset colonnettes to chancel.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf, timber-boarded door with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges in shoulder-arched doorway set within colonnetted and chamfered pointed-arch recesses with floreate carved tympanum to projecting gabled porch. 2-bay transept to left of NW elevation with tall octagonal gablehead stacks and low, lean-to vestry. Statue of St Cuthbert with the head of St Oswald (see NOTES) in trefoil-headed niche to centre of chancel. SW elevation with two 2-light, Y-traceried windows with colonnette mullions flanked by lancets; vesica window in apex of gable.

Stained glass to church (see NOTES); predominantly fixed, diamond pane, leaded lights to vestry. Timber-boarded doors with wrought-iron strap hinges. Grey slate roof with metal ridge. Ashlar-coped saw-tooth skews. Yellow sandstone ashlar stacks. Predominantly cast-iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.

INTERIOR: Whitewashed, with polished sandstone window reveals, columns and detailing. 4-bay nave with foliate-capitalled columns; foliate-capitalled colonettes flanking windows; hoodmoulds with foliate stops. Buff, red and black geometrically patterned ceramic floor tiles. Elaborately carved, traceried, 5-arched timber rood screen (see NOTES). Chamfered timber pews; Gothic-traceried timber choir stalls; Gothic timber lectern; polished timber communion rail with delicate cast-iron supports. Blind trefoil-headed stone arcading to apse; Caen stone altarpiece (see NOTES); hexagonal stone pulpit; square stone font supported by 1 central and 4 corner shafts and with timber and cast-iron cover, all with Gothic detailing. Cast-iron radiators. Timber roof with closely spaced arched braces and painted detailing (see NOTES). Chamfered, painted stone corner chimneypiece in vestry.

GRAVEYARD WALLS: Roughly squared, snecked whinstone wall surrounding all four sides of graveyard, with chamfered yellow sandstone ashlar cope and terminal piers.