Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

NEWBIGGING OUR LADY OF LORETTO AND ST MICHAEL R C CHURCHLB38358

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
15/05/1985
Local Authority
East Lothian
Planning Authority
East Lothian
Burgh
Musselburgh
NGR
NT 34613 72564
Coordinates
334613, 672564

Description

Rebuilt 1903, A E Purdie of Canterbury and Archibald

MacPherson. Church and presbytery form 2 sides of a square

containing a rose garden. Curvilinear gothic cruciform

church, eastern frontal gable, lean-to marthex with low

ogee arched doorways on end elevations, and central, semi

octagonal baptistry, with hexagonal centre window; gable

above, integrated with lateral corner buttresses with

diagonal pinnacles, pair of 2-light traceried windows with

canopied niche between and rose window above. Nave has 3

2-light traceried windows before crossing. South transept

or chapel has larger 2-light traceried window facing east,

under gablet.

Presbytery extends from transept roof single storey with

attics, parallel ridge to rear, extending 1 bay further

south. Splayed porch with low ogee arched doorway in

re-entrant angle, 2 single and 1 double light casement

windows on ground floor. 2 square piended dormers. South

gable has 2 windows ground and 1st floor. Slate ridge roofs

and snecked rubble. Nave with open scissor roof on wall

brackets, aisleless for first 3 bays then breaking through

tall arcade into 2 bay aisles forming Lady Chapel on N

and Chapel of Sacred Heart on S. Square sanctuary with

timber wagon roof bracketed out on canted frieze. Stained

glass designed by Nina Davidson.

Statement of Special Interest

Lady Mary Oswald's Chapel (1843) converted to RC church of

Our Lady of Loretto 1880.

References

Bibliography

Groome, ORDNANCE GAZETTEER, SCOTLAND

McWilliam, Building of Scotland LOTHIAN 1978 p.332.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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