Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

ATHELSTANEFORD, MAIN STREET, ATHELSTANEFORD PARISH CHURCH WITH GRAVEYARD AND BURIAL ENCLOSURE.LB6303

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
B
Date Added
19/06/1991
Local Authority
East Lothian
Planning Authority
East Lothian
Parish
Athelstaneford
NGR
NT 53290 77345
Coordinates
353290, 677345

Description

1864, incorporating earlier fabric of 1870. Cruciform plan aligned E-W. Squared and coursed tooled ashlar with cream polished ashlar dressings. Base course, bracketted eaves, cusped dormerhead ventilator in roof.

S ELEVATION: entrance through gabled porch in angle to left of S transept. Ornamented round arched Neo-Norman doorway with nook-shafts, carved panel above with monogram. 3 round arched windows flanking at left with hoodmoulds. 3 light pointed arched window with cusped tracery and hoodmould to trabsept.

N ELEVATION: as above but with boiler-house to W, plain doorway to N.

W ELEVATION: doorway to W gable in gabled porch with ornamented round-arch and nook shafts. 2 small round arched windows flanking in W gable. Glazed bulls eye window above. Corbelled birdcage bellcote to gablehead set diagonally with round-arched detail and pyramidal roof.

E ELEVATION: canted apse with corbelled table and parapet and single lancet window with trefoil tracery adjoining chancel gable; 2-light window to each return, lean-to porch to N.

Stained glass windows.

Grey slates; polygonal roof to apse. Straight skews; cross finial to S. gable. Single wallhead stack to N.

INTERIOR: simple interior, apse recently remodelled. Arch-braced, hammer beam roof. 3 stained glass windows by C E Kempe to S and E, memorials to Kinloch of Gilmerton family.

BURIAL ENCLOSURE: in churchyard to S of Robert Blair (1699-1746) poet, minister 1731-1746. 2 rusticated piers with cornice and ornamental urns, linked by wrought-ironwork incorporating initials RMRB 1746.

Statement of Special Interest

Church on site since the 12th century. Kinloch of Gilmerton built a new church, manse and school circa 1780; painting by N Cormack hanging at Gilmerton House shows the church in 1811. Church enlargements circa 1868 also financed by Kinloch. Robert Blair the poet, (author of THE GRAVE) and John Home the dramatist (1722-1808) were both former ministers (Duncan). The Saltire is flown continuously in the churchyard, commemorating the legendary association with the flag's origin (King p18).

References

Bibliography

THE STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1799) p174.

THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT (1835) p51.

M King ATHELSTANEFORD (1987).

T O Duncan ATHELSTANEFORD (1934).

C McWilliam THE BUILDINGS OF SCOTLAND: LOTHIAN (1978) p82.

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.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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