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Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder

A Category A Listed Building in Mid Calder, West Lothian

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Latitude: 55.8901 / 55°53'24"N

Longitude: -3.4826 / 3°28'57"W

OS Eastings: 307372

OS Northings: 667323

OS Grid: NT073673

Mapcode National: GBR 403B.TD

Mapcode Global: WH5RQ.G6VX

Plus Code: 9C7RVGR8+2X

Entry Name: Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder

Listing Name: Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main Street

Listing Date: 22 January 1971

Category: A

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 347430

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14144

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Mid Calder, Main Street, Mid Calder Parish Church
Kirk of Calder

ID on this website: 200347430

Location: Mid Calder

County: West Lothian

Electoral Ward: East Livingston and East Calder

Parish: Mid Calder

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Church building Gothic architecture

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Description

c.1530-c.1550. Gothic. Ashlar. Slated roofs. CHANCEL AND
APSE: Moulded eaves course; string course. Massive buttresses.
Pointed traceried windows. Round arched moulded doorway.
VESTRY at E. end: Lean-to roof. Ornamented pinnacles.
Rectangular window. Sandilands Burial vault below. TRANSEPTS
AND BELFRY added 1863 (Brown and Wardrop, Architects) to
W. end. Bell dated 1663; re-cast 1876. INTERIOR of Chancel
and Apse much altered by plaster 'vaults'. Carved wooden
pew-back dated 1595.

Statement of Interest

In ecclesiastical use. Rebuilt on site of earlier Kirk

for rector Peter Sandilands and from 1541 for Sir James

Sandilands, Lord St. John. Transepts on site of Old

Schoolhouse.

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