St Michaels Parish Church Including Graveyard, Gravestones, Boundary Walls, Gatepiers and Outbuilding, Manse Road, Gordon

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/12/2005 Local Authority Scottish Borders Planning Authority Scottish Borders Parish Gordon NGR NT 64491 43188 Coordinates 364491, 643188 — 1763; 6-bay, rectangular-plan church with later additions of 1897 forming N aisle and interior remodelling. Sandstone and whin rubble; rough stone quoins; droved and chamfered window margins; advanced ashlar door pieces to outer bays. Decorative skew putts; lapped stone skews; timber bracketed overhanging eaves; stone bellcote to W. SOUTH (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: 6 bays. Tall single pointed arch windows to central 4 bays. Advanced triangular pedimented doorpieces with round headed doorways to outer bays. Bellcote to left gable. WEST ELEVATION: 2 bays. Advanced gabled aisle to right with tall tripartite stained glass window (c.1940) in dressed stone surround with metal grille. Stone bellcote with pointed cap; decorative skewputts; plain aedicule memorial plaque below window to left. Half-hexagonal stair tower to left bay with small service doorway in re-entrant angle; twin leaf doorway to outer angle; circular leaded windows to upper level; hexagonal pointed slate roof with decorative terracotta finial. NORTH ELEVATION: 4 bays; double transept to centre with two-centred arched bipartite windows to ground, corresponding bipartite windows above. Hexagonal stair tower to far right, low lean-to vestry to re-entrant angle to far left with door to right. EAST ELEVATION: 2 bays. Advanced gabled aisle to left with tripartite stained glass window. N aisle to right bay with later lean-to single storey vestry in re-entrant angle with 12 pane timber sash and case window. Low rubble burial ground wall, with cast iron railings and gate to left. Small square-paned leaded glazing to N and S windows, decorative stained glass pan

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.