Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-baluster-moon
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, located on High Cross Avenue in Melrose, was designed by Benjamin Ferrey and built between 1846 and 1850, with the chancel and transepts added by Hay and Henderson from 1899 to 1900. Ferrey's original church is in the Early English style, featuring an unaisled nave that is four bays long and includes a two-storey porch on the south side. The west end showcases paired lancet windows with a trefoil above and a bell-cote at the gable. Stepped buttresses are present at the corners and between the nave bays. The chancel and transepts, designed by Henderson, are in the Decorated style, characterized by a broad chamfered plinth, stepped buttresses, and projecting gablets that frame the chancel windows. A timber fleche is situated at the crossing.
Inside, the nave features an open timber roof supported by mask corbels, with alternate trusses that have arched braces. The pews are made of pine, and there is some geometrical glass by James Powell of Whitefriars from 1850, along with later commemorative glass by Meyer and Co and W Wilson from 1963. Above the porch, there is a parvise originally intended to hold the choir and organ, which includes a pierced traceried oak balcony. The transepts are separated from the crossing by open traceried screens of Trondheim type. The north transept houses the organ, while the south transept contains a chapel. The chancel features a mosaic floor and an open timber roof with scissor trusses. The pulpit, made of Caen Stone, was created by Ferrey in 1849, and there is a stained glass window in the south transept by Kempe from 1900.
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