St Mary's Church, St Mary's Place, Hawick

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 16/03/1971 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Burgh Hawick NGR NT 50178 14352 Coordinates 350178, 614352 — 1764 core; Wardrop and Reid reconstruction 1882-3. Symmetrical, stepped T-plan church with entrance bays in re-entrant angles and square-plan, 5-stage clock tower to N stepped in with each band course. Rendered masonry with sandstone and concrete dressings. Moulded eaves course. Clock faces and round-arched louvred belfry openings to tower under slated ogee roof with weathervane. Quoin strips; irregular fenestration with plain margins; gabled dormers breaking eaves; large circular windows to gable apexes. Some earlier memorials set into walls. Multi-pane glazing in fixed timber windows; timber-boarded and panelled doors. Small grey slates; terracotta ridge tiles; stone skews; corniced gable stacks. INTERIOR: Post-Reformation T-plan layout with panel-fronted sloping galleries over three sides supported on slender cast-iron columns, scrolled stone corbels and exposed timber beams. Shallow vaulted timber-boarded ceilings. Tongue and groove panelling to dado height. Plain pine pews (painted to galleries). Panelled, bow-fronted pulpit with balustraded stair circa 1880; sounding board and seat circa 1960. Communion Table with arcaded front bearing WWI memorial. Plain timber boarded floors. Stone stair to balconies. CHURCHYARD: 17th, 18th and 19th century headstones around the sloping sides of the church mound. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATES: Coursed rubble walls with heavy stone copes and squared gatepiers to tower steps entrance (N). 1937 walls and wrought-iron memorial gates to NE entrance. Long angled stone stairway leading down to Kirkstile. — Ecclesiastical building in use as such. St Mary's and Old Parish Church is

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.