Hunterfield Road Church, Gorebridge

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/03/1998 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Parish Borthwick NGR NT 34497 61599 Coordinates 334497, 661599 — 1886. Rectangular plan, Gothic Revival church with truncated bellcote (originally a spire). Squared and snecked bullfaced sandstone with polished dressings. Base course; dividing band courses; pointed arched openings; angle buttresses with pinnacles. SW (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 3 bay; central entrance bay flanked by stair tower bays (bay to left is not stair tower); central gabled pointed arched doorway with gableted skewputts; nookshafts; hoodmould with foliate label stops; trefoil recess set in gablehead; 2 leaf boarded timber door, flanked by 2 small windows; 4 light traceried window with hoodmould and foliate label stops above; bracketed bellcote to apex (originally with spire); carved foliated corbels; gableted pointed arched openings with nookshafts, hoodmoulds with foliate label stops and trefoil recesses set in gableheads on all 4 sides. Paired windows to ground and 1st floor of flanking bays. SE ELEVATION: 5 bay, with later additions to right. Paired windows at ground in bay to outer right; rose window in gable above; boarded timber door and window reached by stone steps from right to basement; windows in remaining bays. Earlier 20th century 3 bay gabled addition to right; comprising pointed arch doorway; boarded timber door; 2 pane fanlight; windows to flanking bays. Later 20th century timber lean to addition to outer right. NE ELEVATION: rose window set in gable; simple stone finial; remainder obscured by roofs of later additions. NW ELEVATION: 5 bay, with later additions to left. Paired windows at ground in bay to outer right; rose window in gable above; windows in remaining bays. Earlier 20th century additi

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.