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Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick

A Category B Listed Building in North Berwick, East Lothian

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Latitude: 56.0558 / 56°3'20"N

Longitude: -2.7192 / 2°43'9"W

OS Eastings: 355305

OS Northings: 685004

OS Grid: NT553850

Mapcode National: GBR 2V.QF1K

Mapcode Global: WH7TL.61DW

Plus Code: 9C8V374J+88

Entry Name: Star Of The Sea, R.C. Church Of Our Lady, Law Road, North Berwick

Listing Name: Law Road, Our Lady Star of the Sea, (Roman Catholic Church) with Gateway

Listing Date: 26 May 1988

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 384184

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38750

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: North Berwick, Law Road, R.c. Church Of Our Lady, Star Of The Sea

ID on this website: 200384184

Location: North Berwick

County: East Lothian

Town: North Berwick

Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal

Traditional County: East Lothian

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Description

Dunn and Hansom, Newcastle, 1879. Addition of chancel and sacristy, John Kinross RSA, 1889. Lady Chapel to N, R S Lorimer, 1901. Simple Gothic style church. Squared Newcastle freestone with ashlar dressings. Variety of lead-paned and stained glass glazing patterns. Purple slates with black terracotta ridge and gable cross finials. Plain copings and corbelled eaves at nave and chancel.

W GABLE: pointed moulded arched doorway, hoodmould continuing as string course to angle buttresses. Large traceried carved triangular window with trefoil tracery above, cusped lancets flanking below. Diminutive blind cusped slits, paired in gable head.

N ELEVATION: timber bellcote, 1892, with piended slate roof to W.

3 paired cusped lancets to E before Lady Chapel S side of nave lit similarly.

LADY CHAPEL: projecting N at transept; tripartite rectangular light with tracery to W side, bipartite to E; central buttress to N gable bearing corbel for statue. Ogee detailed window above. Grey slate roof swept at eaves.

INTERIOR: timber ceiling and organ gallery at W end. Nave circa 70? by 20?. Taller chancel through pointed arch opening, with pointed vault. Arched organ gallery to S, pierced quatrefoils in stone balustrade. Travertine marble floor to sanctuary, 1971. Notable stained glass window in Lady Chapel ?Mary, Star of the Sea?, unattributed.

GATE: Archibald MacPherson, 1880. Pillars of Amble stone. Decorative wrought-iron overflow and gate by Bain and Co, Edinburgh.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Presbytery adjoining (listed separately). Drawing by office of John Kinross for 1889 work, disproves former attribution to Basil Champneys, though it may have been ghosted by the former.

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