Temple Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 21/01/1971 Last Date Amended 18/10/1976 Local Authority Midlothian Planning Authority Midlothian Parish Temple NGR NT 31521 58790 Coordinates 331521, 658790 — Thomas Brown of Uphall, 1832. Single storey, T plan, Tudor gothic church. Tooled coursed sandstone with stugged dressings droved to margins. Base course; moulded eaves course; diagonal corner buttresses with gabletted finials; traceried pointed arch openings with hoodmoulds and simple label-stops; chamfered reveals. W (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled; doorway to centre of ground; 2 leaf panelled timber door; obscured by later 20th century timber conservatory; window above; square plan birdcage bellcote to apex; moulded corbels; trefoil headed arch to each elevation; weathervane finial. S ELEVATION: symmetrical; 3 bay; windows to each buttressed bay. E ELEVATION: symmetrical; gabled with window to centre; carved fleur-de-lis finial to apex. N ELEVATION: asymmetrical; 3 bay; advanced gabled bay to centre with central window; window to left and timber door to right of left return; panelled timber door to left and window to right of right return; blank flanking bay to left; single window to flanking bay to right. Grey slate roof with lead ridge; stone skews. Coped stone gablehead stack to N. Cast iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: not seen 1998. GATES, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS: Polished sandstone octagonal gatepiers with pyramidal caps; decorative cast iron gates (missing in places). Tooled rubble wall with flat coping curves round from S to N. — Described as "The only modern building worthy of notice is the church, finished in 1832, which is very neat and commodious; and is placed on a very fine site" (NSA: p21). The church was intended to seat 500 people, and had two galleries. Accord

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.