St Cuthbert's Episcopal Church, Slitrig Crescent, Hawick

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/08/1977 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Hawick NGR NT 50152 14180 Coordinates 350152, 614180 — George Gilbert Scott, 1857-8; vestry added by Robert S Lorimer and John Fraser Matthew, 1908. Early Decorated style church aligned NE to SW with steeply-pitched gabled roof, crow-stepped bellcote, bow-ended chancel, gabled porch, vestry adjoining NW elevation and gabled, pointed-arch nave windows breaking eaves. Squared, snecked whinstone with tooled and polished yellow sandstone ashlar dressings. Deep, ashlar-coped base course; cill course; eaves course; wallhead corbel table to chancel and apse. Hoodmoulds with foliate stops to chancel and SW elevation; cross-shaped gable finials. Tabbed quoins, those to SW gable and porch with inset colonnettes; saw-tooth coped stop-chamfered buttresses; regular fenestration with tabbed, chamfered margins; predominantly bipartite pointed-arch lights to main body of church with quatrefoils to tympanums; trefoil-headed lights with flanking inset colonnettes to chancel. FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf, timber-boarded door with elaborate wrought-iron strap hinges in shoulder-arched doorway set within colonnetted and chamfered pointed-arch recesses with floreate carved tympanum to projecting gabled porch. 2-bay transept to left of NW elevation with tall octagonal gablehead stacks and low, lean-to vestry. Statue of St Cuthbert with the head of St Oswald (see NOTES) in trefoil-headed niche to centre of chancel. SW elevation with two 2-light, Y-traceried windows with colonnette mullions flanked by lancets; vesica window in apex of gable. Stained glass to church (see NOTES); predominantly fixed, diamond pane, leaded lights to vestry. Timber-boarded doors with wrought-iron strap hinges.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.