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Latitude: 55.5989 / 55°35'56"N
Longitude: -2.7306 / 2°43'50"W
OS Eastings: 354057
OS Northings: 634161
OS Grid: NT540341
Mapcode National: GBR 93CP.MS
Mapcode Global: WH7WQ.0JZN
Plus Code: 9C7VH7X9+HP
Entry Name: High Cross Church, High Cross Avenue, Melrose
Listing Name: High Cross Avenue, St. Cuthbert's RC Church
Listing Date: 19 February 1981
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 382931
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB37777
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Melrose, High Cross Avenue, High Cross Church
ID on this website: 200382931
Location: Melrose
County: Scottish Borders
Town: Melrose
Electoral Ward: Leaderdale and Melrose
Traditional County: Roxburghshire
Tagged with: Church building
Peddie and Kinnear, 1866. Tower added 1872. Romanesque, hall church of 4 bays with broad gabled front to North, gabled doors to left and right with shallow projecting narthex between, this has a glazed dwarf arcade with sculptured capitals and alternate red and yellow voussoirs, large plate traceried rose window over. Massive tower at NE angle, 3 stages, clock in second stage, belfry in 3rd stage has triple round-headed louvred opening on each face, corbelled octagonal spire. Front and tower are of snecked bull-faced rubble with stugged and polished dressings. The flanks and rear are of snecked rubble.
Formerly UP Church, opened 1867, cost ?2,000. Enlargement and improvement 1872, cost ?1,200. Eildonside, next to church was damaged by Peddie and Kinnear 1865, but has now been too altered to merit listing.
Sold by the congregation in 1984 and now St. Cuthbert's RC Church
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