Hobkirk Church and Graveyard

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 07/11/2007 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Hobkirk NGR NT 58722 10895 Coordinates 358722, 610895 — David Rhind, 1863. 4-bay, rectangular-plan, gabled, Gothic church with dominant square-plan, 3-stage, heavily buttressed tower with pyramidal roof and weather vane. Red stugged sandstone with droved ashlar dressings. Base course; dentilled eaves course; corbelled parapet to tower. Pointed-arch Y-traceried windows; lancets in porches and vestry. Shouldered buttresses to tower, nave, porches and vestry. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: projecting gabled porches at N elevation of tower and SE corner of nave with steps up to deeply recessed columned doorways with hoodmoulds terminated by label stops; 2-leaf timber-boarded doors with decorative iron hinges. Predominantly diamond pane leaded lights in timber Y-traceried windows. Sawtooth finialed ashlar-coped skews. Welsh slates, zinc ridges. Finials on gables (some missing). Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: open trussed and boarded timber roof carried on stone corbels. Round-headed chancel arch with hood mould and label stops; raised area to N of chancel arch. Central aisle in nave; some box pews in sanctuary and on S of chancel arch, the latter retaining fixed drop-leaf table. GRAVEYARD: gravestones from late 18th century and 19th century in area adjacent to church; 20th century stones in extension to N. Several family burial enclosures (Elliot of Clifton Park; Scott of Crumhaugh, Wauchope & Pinnaclehill and others) originally set into N wall of graveyard (now free-standing because of graveyard extension and removal of parts of wall). WALLS AND GATES: Rubble graveyard walls; ashlar gatepiers with moulded bases and octagonal pointed capstones. 2-leaf iron gates. — Eccles

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.