Graveyard And Boundary Walls, Caddonfoot Church

Graveyard And Boundary Walls, Caddonfoot Church

Caddonfoot Church was designed by David Rhind in 1861 and extended by the same architect in 1875, with further additions and alterations undertaken subsequently. The building is a Gothic-detailed, rectangular-plan church comprising a gabled porch and a later lean-to addition to the southwest; a lower, polygonal apse to the southeast; a gabled sandstone belfry to the northwest; a gabled porch to the northeast; and a flat-roofed WC block in the rear re-entrant angle.

The church is constructed of squared and snecked polished whinstone with red sandstone ashlar dressings and coursed render to the rear addition. It features a raised base course, dentilled eaves, and buttressed angles throughout, with gabletted buttresses and gabletted pinnacles to the nave. Quoins are stugged, as are the long and short surrounds to pointed-arched, chamfered openings that are lightly droved in part. Sandstone mullions and chamfered cills are used throughout.

The southwest elevation contains the entrance and comprises a 4-bay nave with a projecting, gabled porch in the outer right bay. This porch has steps leading to a 2-leaf boarded timber door with decorative iron hinges and a chamfered surround featuring a pointed-arched hoodmould with foliate label stops. A carved plaque bearing a Latin inscription is centred in the gablehead. A 3-light glazing row in a later lean-to addition is slightly recessed to the left, while large Y-traceried windows in the remaining bays are recessed to the outer left. A lower, 5-sided apse slightly recessed to the outer right has plate-traceried windows centred in the bays to the southwest and south.

The northwest elevation is 2-bayed with large Y-traceried windows in both bays at ground level and a circular window centred in the gablehead with a bell and bell rope in place. A shouldered-arched window in a lean-to porch addition is recessed to the outer right, and a boarded timber door in the flat-roofed addition is slightly recessed to the outer left.

The northeast elevation comprises a 4-bay nave with a square-headed window in a gabled, L-plan porch offset to the right of centre. Large Y-traceried windows in the remaining bays are recessed to the left. A 2-bay, flat-roofed addition with square-headed windows is slightly recessed to the outer right. The lower, 5-sided apse slightly recessed to the outer left has plate-traceried windows centred in the bays to the northeast and east.

The southeast elevation features a polygonal apse with plate-traceried windows to the east, southeast and south, with the nave set behind showing a finialled gablehead. A shouldered-arched window in a gabled porch is recessed to the outer left, and a boarded timber door with decorative iron hinges in a gabled porch is recessed to the outer right.

Glazing is predominantly diamond-paned, plain leaded work with some secondary outer glazing; decorative stained glass windows by Herbert Hendrie are present to the northwest, while modern windows serve the flat-roofed block and rear porch. Small rooflights are also present. The roofs are of grey slate with stone-coped skews and iron rainwater goods. A coped sandstone wallhead stack stands at the rear with the cans missing.

The interior comprises a porch with an original entrance to the nave that has been blocked to form a boarded timber recess. A part-glazed, pointed-arch timber-panelled door accesses the later porch addition, which features deep chamfered door reveals, an open timber roof, and painted walls. The nave contains boarded timber dado (panelled in part), painted walls, a boarded timber floor, and timber pews. A barrel-vaulted timber ceiling with architraved rafters, regularly spaced carved bosses, gridded vents, and a billeted timber frieze at the wallhead with naturalistic carving forms the main interior feature. A large, round-arched opening dividing the nave and apse has engaged pilasters and columns beneath an architraved arch.

The 5-sided apse features regularly-spaced windows, a continuous frieze with decorative motifs, and an open timber ceiling with sandstone springers supporting timber trusses. A raised altar to the northwest has a large timber-panelled sounding board centred between the windows, alongside a carved communion table, timber font, timber lectern, and a carved, polygonal pulpit. A wall-mounted organ in a carved timber case is also present. A plain vestry and rear porch occupy the northeast.

The graveyard is of irregular plan and contains various gravestones, including a large, decorative sandstone crucofix, and a war memorial to the east.

Boundary walls of rubble construction with coped tops enclose the site in part. Hooped iron railings flank the entrance, with ball-finialled gatepiers and 2-leaf iron gates.