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Latitude: 55.6525 / 55°39'8"N
Longitude: -3.1876 / 3°11'15"W
OS Eastings: 325368
OS Northings: 640520
OS Grid: NT253405
Mapcode National: GBR 6352.PL
Mapcode Global: WH6V5.06D2
Plus Code: 9C7RMR26+XX
Entry Name: Eastgate Hall Community Centre, Eastgate, Peebles
Listing Name: Eastgate, Eastgate Theatre and Arts Centre, Former Free Church
Listing Date: 29 March 1995
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384752
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB39165
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Peebles, Eastgate, Eastgate Hall Community Centre
ID on this website: 200384752
Location: Peebles
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Peebles
Electoral Ward: Tweeddale West
Traditional County: Peeblesshire
Tagged with: Church building Church hall
1871-2. Aisleless early gothic church with corner tower and spire. Squared and snecked whinstone rubble with cream sandstone rock-faced dressings. base course; chamfered reveals; hoodmoulded openings with foliate and head stops; pointed-arch lancet windows; shoulder-arched doorways with pointed-arched hoods and ashlar tympana.
TOWER: 2-stages; off-set gabletted corner buttresses. 1st stage with doorway to S; small bipartite window above, tripartite window on E return. 2nd stage with tall louvred bipartite windows. Tall broach spire of rock-faced ashlar with gablet ashlar lucarnes, pyramidal ashlar corner finals to base.
NAVE: 6-bay with bipartite lancets to each bay. S front with paired gabled doorways to centre, carved panel with tree of life to tympanum, boarded doors with decorative iron hinges, colonnette-mullioned tripartite windows flanking; tall stapped tripartite window above with plate tracery and ashlar mullions; triangulated cusped oculus to finialled gablehead. Tower to right (see above). To left near matching truncated tower with 1st stage as above; 2nd stage with vesica-shaped oculus; pyramidal roof. Rear (N) elevation gabled with stepped tripartite window and oculus to gablehead.
Small diamond-shaped leaded panes. Purple slates.
Alterations to form theatre and arts centre by Richard Murphy Architects 2002-2004.
List description updated as part of Theatres Thematic Study 2010.
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