Ettrickbridge Church is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 23 June 2003.
Ettrickbridge Church
- WRENN ID
- fading-eave-sable
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 23 June 2003
- OS grid reference
- NT 389 243
- Coordinates
- 55.50885, -2.96751
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Ettrickbridge Church, built in 1841 by William Burn, is a small, rectangular church of group value. The church is constructed of squared and snecked whinstone rubble with droved quoins, and features a stone belfry. It has a raised, moulded base course. The windows and door have round-arched, moulded surrounds with hoodmoulds incorporating label stops, raked cills, and stone mullions.
The west elevation (the main entrance elevation) has a small gabled porch with a roundheaded, two-leaf panelled timber door located to the right of centre. A single window is positioned to the outer right, and three windows are on the left. The south elevation exhibits a single window on a small, cross-finialled gabled bay projecting from the centre of the gable. A raised stepped chimney breast is present at the centre, breaking into a tall, arcaded, stone-capped belfry containing a bell. The north elevation is gabled with a large, hoodmoulded, tripartite window centrally placed. A lower bay was added later to the outer left. The east elevation has four regularly-spaced windows, with a lower projection to the outer right.
The church has multi-pane leaded glazing, including a figurative stained glass window in the centre light of the north elevation. The roof is covered with grey slates, features a stone roofridge, and includes two diminutive conical-topped ridge ventilators. Moulded ashlar-coped skewes and skewputts are present. The interior of the church was not inspected.
A rubble lychgate serves as a war memorial. It has bull-faced angle piers, a cross-finialled red tile roof with plain bargeboarding, and two-leaf timber gates. Inside are timber settles and two timber boards. The west-facing board is elaborately framed and reads ‘KIRK HOPE’, while the east-facing board commemorates the men and women of the Parish of Kirkhope who served in the Great War (1914-1919) and returned safely.
Low saddleback-coped boundary walls with inset railings, and rubble-coped boundary walls enclose the site. The church is currently in ecclesiastical use. Original drawings from 1836 and a publication from 1994 provide further reference.
Local climate
Ettrickbridge Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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