Free Church, Roxburgh Street, Kelso

F T Pilkington, 1865-7, highly individual version of English

Decorated Gothic. Tall gable to west with central projecting

gabled entrance porch rising through the arcaded cusped

windows that light the vestibule. Above and lighting the

gallery is a pair of two-light windows, cusped with

trefoils in the spandrels of the centre mullion, surmounted

by a cusped vesica in the attic of the gable. Slightly to the

north is a massive 3 stage tower and spire. Tall lucarnes

at the belfry clasp an octagonal spire with two-tier

tabernacles with tall slated pyramidal roofs at the

angles. Interior: complex plan with steeply raking gallery

to the west, open timber roof with central boss. Original

gallery front and pews but stripped and light stained;

20th century communion table pulpit and organ case.