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Latitude: 55.9417 / 55°56'29"N
Longitude: -3.0484 / 3°2'54"W
OS Eastings: 334613
OS Northings: 672564
OS Grid: NT346725
Mapcode National: GBR 2F.YR3T
Mapcode Global: WH7TT.4XNF
Plus Code: 9C7RWXR2+MJ
Entry Name: Our Lady Of Loretto And St Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church, Newbigging, Musselburgh
Listing Name: Newbigging Our Lady of Loretto and St Michael R C Church
Listing Date: 15 May 1985
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 383618
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38358
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Musselburgh, Newbigging, Our Lady Of Loretto And St Michael Archangel Roman Catholic Church
ID on this website: 200383618
Location: Musselburgh
County: East Lothian
Town: Musselburgh
Electoral Ward: Musselburgh
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Catholic church building
Rebuilt 1903, A E Purdie of Canterbury and Archibald
MacPherson. Church and presbytery form 2 sides of a square
containing a rose garden. Curvilinear gothic cruciform
church, eastern frontal gable, lean-to marthex with low
ogee arched doorways on end elevations, and central, semi
octagonal baptistry, with hexagonal centre window; gable
above, integrated with lateral corner buttresses with
diagonal pinnacles, pair of 2-light traceried windows with
canopied niche between and rose window above. Nave has 3
2-light traceried windows before crossing. South transept
or chapel has larger 2-light traceried window facing east,
under gablet.
Presbytery extends from transept roof single storey with
attics, parallel ridge to rear, extending 1 bay further
south. Splayed porch with low ogee arched doorway in
re-entrant angle, 2 single and 1 double light casement
windows on ground floor. 2 square piended dormers. South
gable has 2 windows ground and 1st floor. Slate ridge roofs
and snecked rubble. Nave with open scissor roof on wall
brackets, aisleless for first 3 bays then breaking through
tall arcade into 2 bay aisles forming Lady Chapel on N
and Chapel of Sacred Heart on S. Square sanctuary with
timber wagon roof bracketed out on canted frieze. Stained
glass designed by Nina Davidson.
Lady Mary Oswald's Chapel (1843) converted to RC church of
Our Lady of Loretto 1880.
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