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Summary

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 Special 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".

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