Ettrickbridge Church

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.