St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Chapel Brae, West Linton is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 4 November 2010. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Chapel Brae, West Linton

WRENN ID
woven-niche-yarrow
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Constituency
Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale MP: David Mundell (Con)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
4 November 2010
Type
Church
Address
St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Chapel Brae, West Linton, EH46 7EP
OS grid reference
NT 147 518
Coordinates
55.75205, -3.35905
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Mungo's Episcopal Church, located on Chapel Brae in West Linton, was built between 1851 and 1857, with later additions in the 19th century by architects Hay and Henderson. This Gothic church features a T-plan layout, an undercroft, and a central bell-cast fleche, all situated on a steeply sloping site. The exterior is constructed from grey squared and snecked rubble, accented with chamfered ashlar dressings and pointed-arch openings. A chancel addition to the north forms part of the T-plan. There is a timber panelled door at the southeast re-entrant angle, and a lean-to porch with a timber door on the southwest corner elevation. The southwest elevation has two pairs of cusped single lights, while the southeast gable elevation features five single lights with quatrefoils. The chancel includes a two-light geometric traceried window.

The smaller windows in the undercroft have diamond-lattice leaded glazing, and the roof is covered with grey graded slate, with a banded fish-scale slate pattern on the fleche. The church also has cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, the nave has a collar-beam and arch-braced roof, while the chancel features a scissor-braced roof. A timber chancel screen with intersecting tracery separates the chancel from the nave. Notable interior elements include an octagonal carved stone font and fine stained glass by C.E. Kempe of London from 1893, depicting the Supper at Emmaus and St Thomas Aquinas in the southeast window, Moses and the Serpent, and the Crucifixion within the chancel, and the Virgin and Child in the northwest window.

Local climate

St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Chapel Brae, West Linton sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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