Church Of Our Lady And St Andrew, Market Street, Galashiels

William Wardell 1856-58; extended 1866-72 by Goldie and Childe. 7-bay, monolithic basilican-plan Gothic Revival church on prominent corner site. Entrance (S) Front: 5-pointed-arch blind arcade with doors to outer arches, large pointed arched hoodmoulded curvilinear tracery window and small rose window to gable head, shouldered octagonal ashlar capped corner turrets. Side (E) Elevation: tall pointed arched tracery clerestory windows and 5 low copper roofed side chapels with 3 trefoils set between buttresses, pitched 2-bay side aisle to NW. Coursed rubble with smooth sandstone margins. Stepped base course; 1st floor moulded string course. Shaped hoodmoulds.

Stained glass tracery windows, yellow diamond leaded glazing to clerestory, boarded twin-leaf doors; pitched roofs with graduated slates; lead gutters and cast-iron downpipes.

INTERIOR: good later 19th century painted interior decorative scheme in place. Pointed arched arcading to sanctuary walls, decorative painted High Altar and Lady Altar by Earp of London 1864. Carved stone pulpit and font. Equilateral arches to side chapels with quadrant ribs. Timber-lined collar-beamed roof on corbel head stone shafts rising through clerestory. Pointed arched arcade to organ gallery defining vestibule with pair of glazed timber inner porches to S. Stained glass of 1886 by Barnet & Son of Leith. Window in memory of polish expatriates stationed in the area during the war.

CATHOLIC PRESBYTERY: Earlier 19th century 2-storey, 3-bay, L-plan piended-roof villa, linked directly to confessional by small corridor. Coursed whinstone with raised sandstone quoins and margins. 12-pane timber sash and case windows, slate roof.

BOUNDARY WALLS AND RAILINGS: stepped sandstone-coped rubble walls with cast-iron railings and gates.