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. 1 related planning application.

Railings, St Andrew's Arts Centre (Former Ladhope Free Church), Bridge Street

WRENN ID
open-tallow-marsh
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 November 2006
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

McKissack and Rowan, 1885. Early English Gothic former church. Prominent truncated square-plan heavy corner tower, gabled front and side elevations. Roughly-coursed whin and sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, rusticated quoins. Oriented SW-NE. Chamfered base course, string course at sill level. Stepped angle buttresses. Hood-moulded openings. Single-storey halls to side and rear.

FRONT (SW) ELEVATION: 4-stage tower with mullioned lancets and low pyramidal roof. Central gabled bay; projecting porch with stepped colonnaded doorway. Large 5-light central window with Geometrical tracery. Lower stair bay to outer left.

SIDE (SE) ELEVATION: double gabled transept; large tripartite lancets above paired lancets.

Leaded windows. Green slate roof with clay ridge tiles. Ashlar skews.

INTERIOR: much obscured but retaining galleries on 3 sides with round arches supported by quatrefoil columns, highly decorative carved timber pulpit, elder's box, canopy and organ. Timber-boarded ceiling. Hall has timber-truss roof with curved members and stencilled painted ceiling. Timber fireplace in Tudor-arched surround to minor hall.

HALLS: gabled single-storey hall with triple lancets at rear of church. Later hall to NW; mullioned and transomed window, angled doorway with crenellated parapet.

RAILINGS, GATES AND GATEPIERS: wrought iron railings and gates. Ashlar dwarf walls and square-plan gatepiers.

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