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Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Musselburgh, East Lothian

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9435 / 55°56'36"N

Longitude: -3.0453 / 3°2'43"W

OS Eastings: 334807

OS Northings: 672762

OS Grid: NT348727

Mapcode National: GBR 2F.YKT3

Mapcode Global: WH7TT.6W31

Plus Code: 9C7RWXV3+9V

Entry Name: Saint Peter's Episcopal Church, High Street, Musselburgh

Listing Name: High Street, St Peter's Church (Episcopal)

Listing Date: 15 May 1985

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 383550

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38319

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: Musselburgh, High Street, Saint Peter's Episcopal Church

ID on this website: 200383550

Location: Musselburgh

County: East Lothian

Town: Musselburgh

Electoral Ward: Musselburgh

Traditional County: Midlothian

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Description

1865. Thornton Shiells and Paterson.
Early pointed aisleless 5-bay nave and lower and narrower 2-bay
chancel with semi octagonal apse, 2-bay side chapel set at
right angles to chancel on south. Tower and spire at NW
forming porch. West front has 3-light geometrical window
flanked by cusped lancets, vesica above; flanks of nave and SE
chapel buttressed with single cusped lancets. Chancel
buttressed with crocketted pinnacles, cusped lights with
single order of shafts, overarches above with voussoirs between.
Tower 3 stages, lower 2 square and buttressed, broached to
octagonal belfry stage, stone spire with single row of lucarnes
and bands of fish scale and diamond patterns. Octagonal stone
font in imitation of mediaeval work, formerly in St
George's Episcopal Chapel, York Place, Edinburgh by James Adam,
1793.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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