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Latitude: 56.0003 / 56°0'1"N
Longitude: -2.5145 / 2°30'52"W
OS Eastings: 368010
OS Northings: 678714
OS Grid: NT680787
Mapcode National: GBR ND4V.QSC
Mapcode Global: WH8W0.BFWY
Plus Code: 9C8V2F2P+46
Entry Name: Abbey Church Of Scotland, High Street, Dunbar
Listing Name: High Street, Abbey Church, Retaining Walls and Lamp Standards
Listing Date: 11 January 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360875
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24797
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunbar, High Street, Abbey Church Of Scotland
ID on this website: 200360875
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Town: Dunbar
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Church building
Thomas Hamilton, Edinburgh 1850. Ashlar white Catcraig facade
with snecked rubble body. Slate roof. A symmetrical
tripartite facade; pointed arched doorway at centre, 3
stepped lancets above; pinnacled turret with weathervane to
left and pinnacled buttress to right; outer buttresses and
blind arcading to upper level of outer bays. String course
encircling the building at gallery level. Tiled bellcote
spirelet at centre of ridge.
W AND E FACES: 4 lancets below, 3 above.
S ELEVATION: low projecting gabled block with wallhead
chimney and lancets below. 2 lancets in aisles; cusped
circular window in gable.
Rubble boundary wall with ashlar cope, metal railings and
lamp standards at front.
Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Site bought
from the Earl of Lauderdale for $200 by the Free Church.
Building cost $1,660 (Miller). Latterly Church of Scotland
building. Forms an effective full-stop to sweep of the High
Street.
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