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Latitude: 55.8901 / 55°53'24"N
Longitude: -3.4826 / 3°28'57"W
OS Eastings: 307372
OS Northings: 667323
OS Grid: NT073673
Mapcode National: GBR 403B.TD
Mapcode Global: WH5RQ.G6VX
Plus Code: 9C7RVGR8+2X
Entry Name: Mid Calder Parish Church, Main Street, Mid Calder
Listing Name: Midcalder Village Mid Calder Parish Kirk (St. John's Church) Main Street
Listing Date: 22 January 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 347430
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB14144
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Mid Calder, Main Street, Mid Calder Parish Church
Kirk of Calder
ID on this website: 200347430
Location: Mid Calder
County: West Lothian
Electoral Ward: East Livingston and East Calder
Parish: Mid Calder
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Church building Gothic architecture
c.1530-c.1550. Gothic. Ashlar. Slated roofs. CHANCEL AND
APSE: Moulded eaves course; string course. Massive buttresses.
Pointed traceried windows. Round arched moulded doorway.
VESTRY at E. end: Lean-to roof. Ornamented pinnacles.
Rectangular window. Sandilands Burial vault below. TRANSEPTS
AND BELFRY added 1863 (Brown and Wardrop, Architects) to
W. end. Bell dated 1663; re-cast 1876. INTERIOR of Chancel
and Apse much altered by plaster 'vaults'. Carved wooden
pew-back dated 1595.
In ecclesiastical use. Rebuilt on site of earlier Kirk
for rector Peter Sandilands and from 1541 for Sir James
Sandilands, Lord St. John. Transepts on site of Old
Schoolhouse.
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