Dunglass Collegiate Church, Oldhamstocks
Description: Dunglass Collegiate Church
Category: A
Date Listed: 5 February 1971
Historic Scotland Building ID: 14700
OS Grid Coordinates: 376657, 671896
Latitude/Longitude: 55.9395, -2.3752
Location: Oldhamstocks, East Lothian TD13 5XF
Locality: Oldhamstocks
County: East Lothian
Country: Scotland
Postcode: TD13 5XF
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This building is also a scheduled monument.
Listing Text
15th century. Cruciform church with square tower. Ashlar sandstone with base course. Slab roofs, tower now roofless. Battered buttresses to nave and angle buttresses to E and W gables. Carved skewputts and bases of former cross finials at apex.
NAVE: large pointed arch window in W gable with carved label stops to moulded surround. Round arched doorways with bead and hollow surrounds to W end of S and N sides; pointed arch windows by re-entrant angles formed by transepts, formerly with tracery.
CHOIR: gabled sacristy advanced from N elevation, flanked to right by segmentally arched, traceried window. 2 traceried segmental arched windows to S elevation in outer bays of choir; round arched Priest's door off-centre to left of S elevation, with heraldic panel and canopied niche above.
Large pointed arch window on E gable, as on W, but breached to ground level.
TRANSEPTS: pointed arch to gabled ends, partly breached.
TOWER: stumpy crossing tower with narrow cusped lancets at wallhead of each face.
INTERIOR: pointed barrel vaults to nave, choir and sacristy. Timber ceiling to tower with corbels of former floors
remaining. Some flagstones retained. Pointed arches to crossing, one replaced circa 1870, with carved foliage at
impost level by the choir. Wall monuments to the Hall family in S transept. Triple sedilia in S side of choir, with ogeed canopy and decorative carving; remains of piscina below E window. Tomb recesses in gable walls of sacristy, and transepts.
References:
Inventory 124. MacGibbon and Ross ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHITECTURE vol.111, pp.179-88.
TRANSACTIONS OF SCOTTISH ECCLESIOLOGICAL SOCIETY Vo.11, 1906-7.
National Art Survey Drawings, 1907. J Drummond, 1850 pencil sketches.
COUNTRY LIFE 12 September 1925. Fergusson's Sketchbook 18 and 14.
C McWilliam LOTHIAN (1978) pp. 192-4. PROC. BERWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS Vo.ix, 1876-8, pp.409-10.
Notes:
Guardianship Monument. Founded by Sir Alexander Home in a Charter of 1450, based on earlier Chapel of the Virgin Mary at Dunglass; nave and chancel built initially and tower and transepts immediately after. Later fell under the patronage of the Hall family, whose mansion was built to the E. French camp to SW of 1548-9, linked with English stand at the Reformation. Disused church was reduced to serve as stable and store in 18th century, when the E wall was probably breached to allow for machinery. Ivy cleared circa 1870, when a ruinous arch supporting the tower was replaced.
Source: Historic Scotland
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