St Paul's Church, Scott Crescent, Galashiels

St Paul's Church is an Early Decorated Gothic Revival church constructed in red sandstone in 1881 by Hay and Henderson, with the addition of a steeple in 1886. A church hall was added in 1927 by Waddell and Young. The church is a 6-bay, rectangular building with a prominent tower and spire to the southwest. It features advanced, 3-bay buttressed transepts, geometric tracery, and hoodmoulded 3- and 4-light pointed arched windows. A large 5-light pointed arched window is located on the north gable above an arched entrance porch with an equilateral arched doorpiece. A rose window is present on the south wall. A vestry connects to halls to the west via a 9-bay colonnaded glazed cloister on the north side.

The square-plan tower rises in four stages, featuring bi-partite pointed arched geometric tracery and louvered windows. It has a corbelled parapet with corner gargoyles, a prominent crowstepped pediment over bipartite columned ventilators, and a hexagonal needle spire. The exterior is constructed of stugged coursed ashlar with smooth rybats, featuring a base course, moulded eaves course to the aisles and transepts, and a corbelled eaves course to the clerestory.

Inside, the church features clear and stained glass windows, part glazed timber porch doors, and boarded doors. It has a pitched graduated slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, stone slates to the porch, stone skews, cast-iron rainwater goods, and decorative lion-head hoppers. The interior showcases a central nave with paired aisles and side transepts, separated by double rows of polished Peterhead pink granite columns with foliate capitals. The walls are finished with finely coursed grey sandstone ashlar and red stone mouldings, topped with an open timber ceiling. It contains pitch pine pews, a mosaic pavement to the aisles created by Hawley of Edinburgh, and a stone font. In 1948, the pulpit and organ console were moved from the Willis organ screen to the transepts.

The church hall has a 3-bay principal (north) entrance elevation, with an advanced, shouldered buttressed central bay, an equilateral arched doorway, and tripartite lancet windows, flanked by single lancet windows. Stone cross sits at the apex. The hall’s side elevations have four bays, featuring tripartite windows and buttresses. It's constructed of stugged red sandstone ashlar with smooth surrounds, a pitched slate and glazed roof, stone gablet skews and skewputts, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Inside the hall, exposed timber roof trusses support a boarded ceiling, with timber floors, boarding to dado height, a viewing balcony, and a stage. Ancillary rooms are located to the rear.

Boundary walls are made of coursed whinstone with round copes. Disused pyramidal gate piers are stored on site next to the tower.