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Latitude: 55.7781 / 55°46'41"N
Longitude: -2.3418 / 2°20'30"W
OS Eastings: 378657
OS Northings: 653920
OS Grid: NT786539
Mapcode National: GBR D12M.SJ
Mapcode Global: WH8X8.0147
Plus Code: 9C7VQMH5+77
Entry Name: Carpet Warehouse, Currie Street, Duns
Listing Name: Currie Street, Former South Church with Boundary Wall, Gatepiers and Former Hall
Listing Date: 22 December 1994
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 363127
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB26493
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200363127
Location: Duns
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Duns
Electoral Ward: Mid Berwickshire
Traditional County: Berwickshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
1851. Hall church with gabled Gothick facade. Cream sandstone, coursed and stugged to front, with polished ashlar dressings. Lancet windows with chamfered arrises and hoodmoulds; crenellated parapets.
SW (CURRIE STREET) ELEVATION: symmetrical 3-bay. Engaged porch at centre with crenellated octagonal corner towers and parapet; chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould and corresponding glazing to fanlight; 2-leaf panelled doors. 3-light Tudor-arched window above with intersecting tracery and hoodmould (boarded up); blind quatrefoil in gablehead inscribed BUILT 1765 REBUILT 1851. Flanking windows. Octagonal corner towers with octagonal ashlar pinnacles, each facet gableted; chevroned crenellations to skews; corbelled birdcage bellcote at apex with pointed-arch opening to each face, parapet and pinnacle as above.
SE ELEVATION: 3 windows; plain boarded door at ground to left. Timber mullions and simple tracery.
NW ELEVATION: 3 windows without hoodmoulds. Boarded up, but timber tracery remains.
NE (REAR) ELEVATION: pair of windows. Timber astragals to lancets; stained glass to rear. Grey slates; later rendered apex stack to rear. Ashlar coped skews; corbel skewputts.
INTERIOR: now used as carpet warehouse. Flat ceiling with plaster rose at centre; U-plan stepped gallery. Memorials in narthex.
BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: low dressed sandstone wall to front with saddleback ashlar coping; pair of low capped octagonal ashlar gatepiers at centre.
HALL: single storey 4-bay hall, now converted to house, to E at right angles to church. Dressed cream sandstone. Bipartite windows to each bay, chamfered arrises. Corniced door in flat-roofed link to church to left. Modern plate glass windows. Ashlar coped skews; grey slates.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Former UP Church, the congregation now united with the Parish Church.
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