Description

James Tod, dated 1800, T-plan Gothic church; vestry
added 1846, and alterations by David Bryce, 1866;
chancel added, probably W J Walker Todd, 1930. Erected
on site of pre-reformation church. Squared and snecked
tooled sandstone rubble with stugged ashlar dressings.
Lancet windows. Chamfered arrises to openings. Gablet
coping to skews with bracketted skewputts, Bryce, 1866.
NAVE: (2-storey vestry lies jamb to N side and chancel
projects from E gable). Gabled porch at centre of W
gable: mannered lintel with date above; 2-leaf doors
with decorative wrought-iron hinges; small lancet on
each return. 2-light window to gallery. Gabled stone
bellcote; bell, 1953.
2-bay S elevation with 2, tall 2-light windows divided
by buttresses with off-sets. Cross finial to main E
gable with arrow slit window at apex, 1 lancet window
flanking vestry jamb by re-entrant each side.
VESTRY: 1846. Advanced from centre of nave N elevation.
2 closely grouped lancets at ground, 2 taller in upper
storey and blind arrow slit at apex; gablehead stack;
doorway with mannered lintel on W return 1800 date above
in circular thistled panel. Entrance to crypt on E
return with wrought-iron railings.
CHANCEL: gabled projection from E gable; tall 3-light Y-
traceried window; 3-light windows with cusping to each
return.
Grey-green slates. Diamond-pane leaded glazing pattern.
Decorative cast-iron gutter brackets.
INTERIOR: boarded dado, whitewash above; open scissor
braced timber roof. Panelled pitch pine galleries to W
end and above vestry, with timber piers. 2 decorative
painted glass windows and stained glass 3-light to
St David. Organ, by David Hamilton, circa 1840,
decorative Gothic dark wood case.
BROUN AISLE: dated 1864. Bryce sited by W gate, on
rising ground, adjoined to retaining walls. Squared,
snecked and tooled cream sandstone with ashlar
dressings; moulded cornice. Pointed arch doorway with
hoodmould in S gable end, with dedication panel above
and Broun shield at apex. Decorative cross finial.
3 bipartite openings with transoms to E with decorative
cast-iron railings and leaded glazing pattern above.
Grey dressed stone buttresses dividing lancets and 1 to
E of doorway. Narrow lancet in N gable end.
GRAVEYARD WALLS: rubble boundary walls, with office to
N, abutting wall, erected 1842. Fine gravestones dating
from earlier church, classically detailed and with
variety of memento mori.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such (Church of

Scotland). On site of earlier church, in ox bow of

Humbie Burn, on steep ground. Chancel probably by W

J Walker Todd Architect because he was paid $63 in 1928

for reporting and advising on the church. Organ

transferred from Norwegian Lutheran Kirk, Leith, in

1987. Broun Aisle erected by Archibald Broun of

Johnstonburn "in lieu of the burial place of his family

within the church, which in deference to the feelings of

the parishioners, he has now closed".

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Humbie Parish Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q11839259

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