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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
ID on this website: 200384184
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Church building
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.
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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