St Cuthbert's Episcopal Church, Slitrig Crescent, Hawick

St Cuthbert's Episcopal Church, built in the Early Decorated style, dates to 1857-8 and was designed by George Gilbert Scott. A vestry was added in 1908 by Robert S Lorimer and John Fraser Matthew. The church is oriented northeast to southwest, featuring a steeply-pitched gabled roof, a crow-stepped bellcote, a bow-ended chancel, a gabled porch, a vestry attached to the northwest elevation, and gabled, pointed-arch nave windows that break the eaves. The exterior is constructed of squared, snecked whinstone with tooled and polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Distinctive features include a deep, ashlar-coped base course, a cill course, an eaves course, a wallhead corbel table to the chancel and apse, and hoodmoulds with foliate stops to the chancel and southwest elevation. Cross-shaped gable finials are also present. The quoins are tabbed, with those on the southwest gable and porch incorporating inset colonnettes. Saw-tooth coped stop-chamfered buttresses add visual interest, along with regular fenestration, including tabbed, chamfered margins and predominantly bipartite pointed-arch lights to the main body of the church, with quatrefoils in the tympanums. The chancel features trefoil-headed lights flanked by inset colonnettes.

A two-leaf, timber-boarded door with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges is set within a shoulder-arched doorway and recessed within colonnetted and chamfered pointed-arch recesses, topped with a projecting gabled porch and floreate carved tympanum. The northwest elevation incorporates a two-bay transept with tall octagonal gablehead stacks and a low, lean-to vestry. Inside the chancel is a statue of St Cuthbert with the head of St Oswald, set within a trefoil-headed niche. The southwest elevation exhibits two two-light windows with Y-tracery and colonnette mullions, flanked by lancets, alongside a vesica window at the apex of the gable.

Stained glass is found within the church; the vestry windows are predominantly fixed, diamond-pane, leaded lights. Timber-boarded doors with wrought-iron strap hinges are used internally. The roof is clad in grey slate with metal ridge details, complemented by ashlar-coped saw-tooth skews and yellow sandstone ashlar stacks. Rainwater goods are predominantly cast-iron with decorative hoppers.

The interior is whitewashed, showcasing polished sandstone window reveals, columns, and detailing. The four-bay nave has foliate-capitalled columns and colonettes flanking the windows, and hoodmoulds with foliate stops. The floor is laid with buff, red, and black geometrically patterned ceramic tiles. The church contains an elaborately carved, traceried, five-arched timber rood screen. Furnishings include chamfered timber pews, Gothic-traceried timber choir stalls, a timber lectern, and a polished timber communion rail with delicate cast-iron supports. A blind trefoil-headed stone arcading defines the apse. The altarpiece is constructed from Caen stone. A hexagonal stone pulpit and a square stone font, supported by one central and four corner shafts and covered with detailed timber and cast-iron work, are also present. Cast-iron radiators are installed. The timber roof features closely spaced arched braces with painted detailing. A chamfered, painted stone chimneypiece is found within the vestry.

Roughly squared, snecked whinstone walls surround the graveyard on all four sides, topped with a chamfered yellow sandstone ashlar cope and terminal piers.