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Latitude: 55.6007 / 55°36'2"N
Longitude: -2.4368 / 2°26'12"W
OS Eastings: 372572
OS Northings: 634201
OS Grid: NT725342
Mapcode National: GBR C3FP.74
Mapcode Global: WH8XZ.JHTB
Plus Code: 9C7VJH27+77
Entry Name: Free Church, Roxburgh Street, Kelso
Listing Name: Roxburgh Street St John's Edenside and Ednam Church of Scotland
Listing Date: 16 March 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 380458
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB35800
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Kelso North Parish Church (Kelso, Scotland)
Kelso, Roxburgh Street, Free Church
ID on this website: 200380458
Location: Kelso
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Kelso
Electoral Ward: Kelso and District
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Church building
F T Pilkington, 1865-7, highly individual version of English
Decorated Gothic. Tall gable to west with central projecting
gabled entrance porch rising through the arcaded cusped
windows that light the vestibule. Above and lighting the
gallery is a pair of two-light windows, cusped with
trefoils in the spandrels of the centre mullion, surmounted
by a cusped vesica in the attic of the gable. Slightly to the
north is a massive 3 stage tower and spire. Tall lucarnes
at the belfry clasp an octagonal spire with two-tier
tabernacles with tall slated pyramidal roofs at the
angles. Interior: complex plan with steeply raking gallery
to the west, open timber roof with central boss. Original
gallery front and pews but stripped and light stained;
20th century communion table pulpit and organ case.
Built as Kelso Free Church of which Dr Horatius Bonar, the
hymn-writer, was the minister. Ecclesiastical building in
use as such.
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