Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

ROSETTA ROAD, ST JOSEPH RC CHURCH AND PRESBYTERY, WITH BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE AND GATEPIERS (PRESBYTERY IS 17 ROSETTA ROAD)LB39257

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
29/03/1995
Local Authority
Scottish Borders
Planning Authority
Scottish Borders
Burgh
Peebles
NGR
NT 24793 40726
Coordinates
324793, 640726

Description

1858. Plain Gothic aisleless 5-bay church with single bay chancel and 2-storey L-plan presbytery attached. Whinstone with cream sandstone ashlar dressings.

CHURCH: ashlar coped base course; windows with loop-tracery or open-trefoil heads, chamfered arrises.

E (ROSETTA ROAD) ELEVATION: gable of chancel projecting from taller gable of nave; lateral buttresses. Simple curvilinear 4-light window in deeply chamfered pointed-arch frame. Lateral buttresses; ashlar cross at chancel apex; wrought-iron cross at apex of nave. Link block of presbytery to left (see below).

N ELEVATION: stepped buttress between each bay; window to each bay. Left bay of nave with small projecting gabled side chapel; large open-trefoil windows in gablehead and to returns. Centre right bay with projecting gabled porch; pointed-arch hoodmoulded doorcase with square (uncarved ?) labelstops; blind trefoil in gablehead; wrought-iron finial; lateral buttresses.

W ELEVATION: rendered. Oculus at centre at ground; pair of 2-light trefoil-headed windows above gallery level; quatrefoil above at centre. Square buttressed apex (formerly base for bellcote ?) with wrought-iron cross.

S ELEVATION: 3 bays of nave to left; presbytery adjoined to right.

Leaded windows. Grey slates with fish-scale bands; cusped terracotta ridge tiles; square fleche with pagoda roof. Ashlar coped skews, corbel skewputts.

INTERIOR: plain braced open timber roof. Panelled gallery to rear supported on pair of square chamfered timber columns. Pointed ashlar arch frames chancel; grey marble altar and reredos. Side chapel to N. Limited amount of stained glass.PRESBYTERY: regular fenestration, chamfered arrises.

E (ROSETTA ROAD) ELEVATION: 2-bay gable to left; smaller windows in gablehead grouped to centre. 2-storey link to nave with pair of windows at 1st floor; projecting single storey link to chancel with pitched and flat roof; 2-leaf boarded door to left, 3 windows to right (centre bipartite). All windows hard under eaves.

S ELEVATION: 3-bay.

W ELEVATION: 2-bay gable to right with projecting lean-to closet and boilerhouse at ground. 2-bay link to left with bipartite window and glazed door at ground and 2 windows at 1st floor; glazed timber veranda between church and lean-to.

Timber sash and case windows; 3- and 6-pane. Grey slates; coped whinstone stacks with ashlar dressings; ashlar coped skews.

BOUNDARY WALLS, GATE AND GATEPIERS: rubble boundary walls with boulder and saddleback ashlar coping; wrought-iron gate to presbytery with coped square rubble gatepiers.

Statement of Special Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. The 2-storey presbytery link was added after 1899. B Group with the former school and schoolhouse immediately to the N (see separate listing).

References

Bibliography

J L Brown and I C Lawson HISTORY OF PEEBLES 1850-1990 1990 p256. Groome's GAZETEER 1895.

About Listed Buildings

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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)

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