St Mary's Church, St Mary's Place, Hawick

St Mary's Church, located at St Mary's Place in Hawick, has its core dating back to 1764, with a reconstruction by Wardrop and Reid completed in 1882-1883. The church features a symmetrical, stepped T-plan design, with entrance bays positioned in the re-entrant angles and a square-plan, five-stage clock tower on the north side that steps in with each band course. The exterior is made of rendered masonry, with sandstone and concrete dressings, and includes a moulded eaves course. The clock tower has clock faces and round-arched louvred belfry openings beneath a slated ogee roof topped with a weathervane. The building displays quoin strips, irregular fenestration with plain margins, gabled dormers that break the eaves, and large circular windows at the gable apexes. Some earlier memorials are set into the walls.

The church has multi-pane glazing in fixed timber windows and timber-boarded and panelled doors. The roof is covered with small grey slates, terracotta ridge tiles, and features stone skews and corniced gable stacks.

Inside, the church has a post-Reformation T-plan layout with panel-fronted sloping galleries on three sides, supported by slender cast-iron columns, scrolled stone corbels, and exposed timber beams. The ceilings are shallow vaulted and timber-boarded. The dado height features tongue and groove panelling, and there are plain pine pews, which are painted in the galleries. A panelled, bow-fronted pulpit, with a balustraded stair dating from around 1880, includes a sounding board and seat from around 1960. The Communion Table has an arcaded front that bears a World War I memorial. The floors are plain timber boarded, and there is a stone stair leading to the balconies.

The churchyard contains headstones from the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, situated around the sloping sides of the church mound.

The boundary walls and gates consist of coursed rubble walls topped with heavy stone copes, along with squared gatepiers at the entrance to the tower steps on the north side. There are walls built in 1937 and wrought-iron memorial gates at the northeast entrance, as well as a long angled stone stairway leading down to Kirkstile.