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Latitude: 55.9991 / 55°59'56"N
Longitude: -2.5117 / 2°30'42"W
OS Eastings: 368183
OS Northings: 678581
OS Grid: NT681785
Mapcode National: GBR ND5V.L2Z
Mapcode Global: WH8W0.DG6V
Plus Code: 9C7VXFXQ+J8
Entry Name: Parish Church, Dunbar
Listing Name: Queen's Road Parish Church and Graveyard, Church of Scotland
Listing Date: 5 February 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 360930
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB24842
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Dunbar, Parish Church
ID on this website: 200360930
Location: Dunbar
County: East Lothian
Town: Dunbar
Electoral Ward: Dunbar and East Linton
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Church building
James Gillespie Graham, 1818-21. Perpendicular Gothic
Revival. Rectangular with clasping angle buttressed towers
and 4-stage W tower. Canted 5-sided buttressed apse added to
E gable by W and J Hay of Liverpool 1897. Coursed squared
Bourhouse sandstone rubble; ashlar dressings. Slate roof.
Mullioned and traceried pointed windows. Hoodmoulds above all
openings. Gabletted, crenellated parapet to apse, gables and
towers, resting on string course.
Entrance tower divided by string courses with openings to
each face at each stage. 4-centred doorways to porch; 2-light
cusped windows in 1st and 2nd stage with 3-light louvred
openings at belfry.
Tower flanked by tall aisle windows; latter repeated at E. N
and S walls 5 bays between outer corner tower; advanced
centre bay gabled with circular trefoiled window in gable
head.
INTERIOR: aisled with 5-bay pointed arcades on columns with
moulded capitals. Timber ceiling trusses exposed and
gothicised 1897. Gallery in W bay with traceried panelled.
Gothic style oak pulpit and sounding board (1918), communion
table (1934).
Plain leaded windows of 1897. Original galleries removed by W
and J Hay. Stained glass: central apse window Edward Frampton
(1901) flanked by Ballantine and Sons to left (1865) and
right (1871). 3-light S window by A L and C E Moore (1926). Wall-monument to George Home circa 1611 at E end of N aisle.
Renaissance Triumphal arch; incorporated from earlier church.
Polychrome marble and alabaster. 12ft high by 26ft wide.
Profiled kneeling figure centre, flanking Knight atlantes
supporting Justice and Wisdom figures. Reclining, figures in
arch and scrolled heraldic panel above. Possibly Italian
workmen employed: restored in 1897 by Grant Stevenson.
LAVABO: S of Home monument. W Birnie Rhind circa 1901. Shell
supported by pair of putti, probably alabaster. Dedicated to
Rev. Robert Buchanan.
GRAVEYARD: Rubble sandstone boundary wall extending S.
W WALL: mid 17th century wall-slab. Ionic columns with egg
and dart moulding, with weaponry reliefs and flanking
strapwork behind. Trumpet-blowing angel in centre arch above
illegibly weathered inscription panel. Escutcheon on crowning
pediment. Possibly made for a victim of battle of Dunbar.
W WALL: late 17th century wall-slab. Bipartite form with
channelled columns. Weathered inscription above with curved
pediment. Purves family monument; modern inscriptions in
arched recesses.
CENTRE: early 19th century diminutive Gothic building now
used as tool-house. Rubble and slates. Round arched door in
advanced pedimented bay, flanked by blind, Y-traceried
pointed arch lights.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Prominent edifice on
raised site. Former large collegiate church of 1342, which
became Town Kirk 1560 with tower added 1739 on same site
exactly.
1818-21 building by Wall and Dickson contractors, Haddington;
cost $6,000 (Miller p 198).
Interior refurbishment of 1897 result of repeated fund
raising from 1883 instigated by Duchess Dowager of Roxburghe (Haddingtonshire Courier).
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