Railings, St Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church), Bridge Street is a Grade C listed building in the Scottish Borders local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 November 2006. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Railings, St Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church), Bridge Street
- WRENN ID
- open-tallow-marsh
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Scottish Borders
- Constituency
- Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk MP: John Lamont (Con)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 14 November 2006
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Railings, St Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church), Bridge Street, TD1 1SP
- OS grid reference
- NT 491 363
- Coordinates
- 55.61806, -2.80915
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The former Ladhope Free Church, now known as St Andrew's Arts Centre, was designed by McKissack and Rowan in 1885 and showcases an Early English Gothic architectural style. The building features a prominent truncated square-plan heavy corner tower and gabled front and side elevations. It is constructed from roughly-coursed whin and sandstone rubble, accented with ashlar dressings and rusticated quoins. The church is oriented southwest to northeast and includes a chamfered base course and a string course at sill level, along with stepped angle buttresses and hood-moulded openings. There are single-storey halls located at the side and rear of the building.
The front (southwest) elevation displays a four-stage tower with mullioned lancets and a low pyramidal roof. It has a central gabled bay with a projecting porch that features a stepped colonnaded doorway. A large five-light central window adorned with Geometrical tracery is also present, along with a lower stair bay to the outer left.
On the side (southeast) elevation, there is a double gabled transept with large tripartite lancets positioned above paired lancets. The building is fitted with leaded windows and has a green slate roof topped with clay ridge tiles, along with ashlar skews.
Inside, much of the original detail is obscured, but the church retains galleries on three sides supported by round arches and quatrefoil columns. Notable interior features include a highly decorative carved timber pulpit, an elder's box, a canopy, and an organ. The ceiling is timber-boarded, while the hall boasts a timber-truss roof with curved members and a stencilled painted ceiling. A timber fireplace with a Tudor-arched surround can be found in the minor hall.
The church includes a gabled single-storey hall at the rear with triple lancets, as well as a later hall to the northwest featuring a mullioned and transomed window and an angled doorway with a crenellated parapet.
Additionally, there are wrought iron railings and gates, complemented by ashlar dwarf walls and square-plan gatepiers surrounding the property.
Local climate
Railings, St Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church), Bridge Street receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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