High Cross Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose is a Grade B listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 19 February 1981. Church. 2 related planning applications.
High Cross Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose
- WRENN ID
- open-kitchen-kestrel
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1981
- Type
- Church
- Address
- High Cross Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose, TD6 9SQ
- OS grid reference
- NT 540 341
- Coordinates
- 55.59889, -2.73066
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
High Cross Church, located on High Cross Avenue in Melrose, was designed by Peddie and Kinnear in 1866, with a tower added in 1872. This Romanesque hall church features four bays and a broad gabled front facing north. There are gabled doors on both the left and right sides, with a shallow projecting narthex in between. The narthex includes a glazed dwarf arcade supported by sculptured capitals and features alternating red and yellow voussoirs. Above this, there is a large plate traceried rose window. At the northeast angle of the church stands a massive tower with three stages; the second stage contains a clock, while the belfry in the third stage has triple round-headed louvred openings on each face and is topped with a corbelled octagonal spire. The front and tower are constructed of snecked bull-faced rubble with stugged and polished dressings, while the flanks and rear are made of snecked rubble.
Local climate
High Cross Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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