St Mary's Rc Church, Bowmont Street, Kelso is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 2 July 1980. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Mary's Rc Church, Bowmont Street, Kelso

WRENN ID
muted-flue-weasel
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
2 July 1980
Type
Church
Address
St Mary's Rc Church, Bowmont Street, Kelso, TD5 7DZ
OS grid reference
NT 723 344
Coordinates
55.6025, -2.44011
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mary's Roman Catholic Church on Bowmont Street in Kelso was designed by W W Wardell from London and built between 1857 and 1858, with a chancel added around 1935. This is a simple rectangular Gothic church with four bays. The east gable features two-light windows on either side of a central stepped buttress, topped with a bell-cote at the apex. The sides of the church have paired lancet windows, and there is a gabled porch on the south side. The chancel, which is square-ended and narrower but the same height as the main body of the church, has stepped lancets on its flanks. Inside, the church has a simple unaisled layout with an open timber roof. The chancel contains an elaborate reredos, designed by Archibald Macpherson in 1916, which was added in 1935.

Local climate

St Mary's Rc Church, Bowmont Street, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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