St Peter's Episcopal Church, Abbotsford Road, Galashiels is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 24 May 1979. Church. 2 related planning applications.
St Peter's Episcopal Church, Abbotsford Road, Galashiels
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1979
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Henderson, 1853 (nave). George Henderson, 1881 (chancel and south aisle). Simple oblong Early English church, with projecting gabled entrance porch and long chancel. Aisle and vestry to south. Squared whin rubble with droved buff sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course, moulded eaves course to chancel. Single lancets to nave, plate tracery to chancel. Hood-moulded geometric east window. Altar by Robert Lorimer (c1920)
NORTH (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: buttressed 4-bay nave with entrance porch to right; pointed arch on colonettes, cast iron gates. 2-bay recessed chancel to left.
Leaded glazing. Purple slate roof with ashlar skews and cruciform finials. Corniced stack to aisle. Copper-hooded bell to exterior of aisle.
INTERIOR: open timber roof: braced collar-beams to chancel, arched braces to nave. Semicircular nave arcade on cylindrical piers. Exposed stone chancel and aisle arches. Altar, pulpit and organ-case with timber tracery. Variety of stained glass. Carved stone baptismal font.
BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: whin rubble boundary walls to south and west. Sandstone dwarf walls with cast iron railings and ashlar gatepiers.
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