Innerleithen Parish Church, Leithen Road, Innerleithen

Innerleithen Parish Church, located on Leithen Road in Innerleithen, was originally built between 1865 and 1867 by Thomas Pilkington and was substantially rebuilt by James Macintyre Henry in 1887, with further alterations made in 1920. This Gothic-style church has a roughly rectangular plan and features multiple gables, including double gables on the transepts and an octagonal tower at the northeast corner.

The exterior showcases polychromatic stonework, consisting of coursed whinstone rubble with stugged sandstone quoins and window margins. It has a battered base course. The main (East) elevation presents a pointed overarch on corner pilasters, framing a recessed screen with six-light Venetian Gothic windows and three circular windows above. The decoration includes finely carved capital heads. To the left is a two-bay session house, while to the right is the 1920 octagonal tower topped with a Gothic cupola. The paired gables of the transepts are adorned with triple-light and trefoil windows above four-light Gothic windows, and there are pointed quatrefoil dormers. The church has a plain pitched and buttressed chancel at the west end, which features a truncated stack.

The roof is covered in grey slate with clay ridge tiles, and it includes a pyramidal-capped octagonal ridge ventilator. The stone skews are sawtooth, and there are apex finials. The rainwater goods are made of cast iron.

Inside, as seen in 2008, there is a large red sandstone chancel arch on moulded shafts that houses a large organ with finely stencilled pipes made by J. Brook & Co of Glasgow. The nave and east end are covered by an open timber roof supported by painted cast-iron columns, with side galleries. There are two original carved stone capital columns at the east end, angled pews, and tongue and groove dado height panelling. The octagonal timber carved pulpit rests on a sandstone base designed by Macintyre Henry. The church also features stained glass memorials dedicated to the World Wars and a later 20th-century partition below the east gallery.

The boundary walls consist of a rubble wall with angled sandstone copes to the east, along with octagonal sandstone pyramidal-capped gatepiers and wrought-iron memorial gates dedicated to Rev J Y Walker, who served as minister from 1917 to 1951. There is also a rubble wall with ogee clay copes to the north and plain walls to the north and south.