Churchyard, Kirkton Church is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 7 November 2007. Church.
Churchyard, Kirkton Church
- WRENN ID
- stony-chapel-yarrow
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 7 November 2007
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
1841; porch and chancel additions by John Robertson, 1904-1906. 3-bay, rectangular-plan, gable-fronted church with advanced pinnacled porch and birdcage belfry to W gable and gabled chancel and vestry to E. Whinstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings. Base course; eaves course. Pointed-arch windows with raised margins and timber tracery; stone tracery to chancel.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf timber-boarded door with strap hinges, set in roll-moulded pointed-arch to gabled porch with side pinnacles and cross-finial to gable apex. Hood-moulded window to principal gable behind. 3-bay side elevations. Gabled chancel to E with lower gabled vestry set at right angles to right.
Coloured leaded lights set in fixed timber windows. Ashlar-coped skews with cross finials to additions and ball finial to E gable. Welsh slate roof with ashlar ridge. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: trussed timber roof in nave; chancel with trussed and boarded roof. Timber panelling to dado height in nave and on sloping window cills. Art Nouveau gasoliers.
GRAVEYARD: coped rubble boundary walls. Spear-headed gates at SW corner, probably mid-19th century; mounting stone adjacent to gate. Gravestones, mainly to S, E and W of church, late 18th and 19th centuries.
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