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

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Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
24 May 1979
Type
Church
Address
St Peter's Episcopal Church, Abbotsford Road, Galashiels, TD1 3DS
OS grid reference
NT 495 355
Coordinates
55.61118, -2.80242
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Peter's Episcopal Church, located on Abbotsford Road in Galashiels, was built in 1853 by John Henderson, with the chancel and south aisle added by George Henderson in 1881. This simple, oblong church is designed in the Early English style and features a projecting gabled entrance porch and a long chancel, along with an aisle and vestry on the south side. The building is constructed of squared whin rubble with buff sandstone ashlar dressings, and includes a base course and a moulded eaves course on the chancel. The nave has single lancet windows, while the chancel showcases plate tracery and a hood-moulded geometric east window. The altar, designed by Robert Lorimer around 1920, adds to the church's interior significance.

The north elevation features a buttressed four-bay nave with an entrance porch on the right, which has a pointed arch supported by colonettes and cast iron gates. To the left is a two-bay recessed chancel. The church is topped with a purple slate roof, complemented by ashlar skews and cruciform finials, and includes a corniced stack on the aisle and a copper-hooded bell on the exterior.

Inside, the church boasts an open timber roof with braced collar-beams in the chancel and arched braces in the nave. There is a semicircular nave arcade supported by cylindrical piers, and the chancel and aisle arches are exposed stone. The interior features an altar, pulpit, and organ-case adorned with timber tracery, a variety of stained glass windows, and a carved stone baptismal font.

The boundary walls consist of whin rubble on the south and west sides, while sandstone dwarf walls with cast iron railings and ashlar gatepiers define the entrance.

Local climate

St Peter's Episcopal Church, Abbotsford Road, Galashiels receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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