Kelso Old Parish Church, Abbey Row, Kelso is a Grade A listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 16 March 1971. Church. 1 related planning application.
Kelso Old Parish Church, Abbey Row, Kelso
- WRENN ID
- lunar-moulding-autumn
- Grade
- A
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1971
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Kelso Old Parish Church, Abbey Row, Kelso, TD5 7JF
- OS grid reference
- NT 729 339
- Coordinates
- 55.59804, -2.43114
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Kelso Old Parish Church, located on Abbey Row in Kelso, was built between 1771 and 1773 by masons James Nisbet and John Laidlaw, with carpentry work by John Purves. The church underwent alterations by William Elliot in 1823, and a belfry was added over the north porch in 1833. The building is octagonal in shape, featuring vestibule wings that project from the north and south sides. The east and west sides have blocked doors that are arched and pedimented. The body of the church is two stories high, with square hood-moulded windows in the gallery, constructed from coursed rubble with droved dressings and cill-courses. It has a pyramidal slated roof topped with an octagonal lantern. The north and south projecting wings are pedimented and have key-blocked round-headed, hood-moulded windows above the entrance doors. The Italianate timber belfry added in 1833 sits over the north porch. Inside, a flat ceiling replaced the original domed interior in 1823 to enhance acoustics, and the gallery was altered to a horse-shoe shape with a new pulpit and other features installed by Usher Holme from Liverpool in 1895.
Local climate
Kelso Old Parish Church, Abbey Row, Kelso receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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