Southdean Parish Church, Chesters

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 12/05/2003 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Southdean NGR NT 62415 10896 Coordinates 362415, 610896 — George Grant of Glasgow, 1874 (opened 1876) with internal alterations 1923-1924. Early English, rectangular-plan buttressed church with gabled entrance porch and single storey, square-plan vestry to rear. Rusticated red sandstone ashlar with polished window and door dressings; deep base course (panelled in places) and moulded eaves course. Skew gabled with bell tower gable to N. W (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: to left, square-plan pitch roofed porch: 2 stone steps leading to 2-leaf timber boarded door with ornate wrought-iron hinges and pair of wrought-iron ring door handles, very deep moulded surround with hoodmould terminating in female head label-stops, voussoirs to outer of door surround; rest of elevation plain with inset oval moulded stone with raised 1874 date stone set within quatrefoil; stylised fleur-de-lis cross to apex of gable. To left and right return: deep sloped base course, small arched floral stained glass window with moulded surround and short stepped buttress to lower outer angle. To rest of principal elevation, small round window divided into 4 panes above porch and to right, 3 regularly placed single-light arched windows with hoodmoulds terminating in foliate label stops, each window with stepped buttress between. S ELEVATION: gabled end with band course and central three-light arched window with architraved surrounds, continuous hoodmould with foliate label stops and sloped drip sills; stepped buttresses to outer flanks. Small round window with sandstone voussoirs near gablehead, stone cross on apex. E (REAR) ELEVATION: to left, single storey vestry: blind gabled section to left and flat-ro

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.