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Latitude: 56.0595 / 56°3'34"N
Longitude: -2.7177 / 2°43'3"W
OS Eastings: 355405
OS Northings: 685411
OS Grid: NT554854
Mapcode National: GBR 2V.Q7C6
Mapcode Global: WH7TD.7Y3M
Plus Code: 9C8V375J+QW
Entry Name: Blackadder Church, Forth Street, North Berwick
Listing Name: Victoria Road, Blackadder Church with Retaining Walls and Gatepiers (Church of Scotland
Listing Date: 26 May 1988
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 384226
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB38773
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200384226
Location: North Berwick
County: East Lothian
Town: North Berwick
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
Tagged with: Church building
1844. Major extensions and tower by Honeyman and Keppie 1889. Late decorated Gothic style L-plan church with tower and porch in re-entrant angle. Squared and snecked rubble; ashlar dressings. Slated roof, grey to church, green to spire.
S GABLE: original entrance with roll-moulded surround, basket arched with hoodmould and label stops. Panelled double doors, cusped in upper panels. Miniature crenellation course above, between flanking buttresses. Tall late decorated windows; 3-light and 4-centred above with pointed 2-lights in flanking bays. String course at eaves level stepping over central bay. Angle buttresses with pedestal and pyramid finials.
TOWER: E of S gable. Hoodmoulded bipartite at S with cusped tracery. Louvred belfry openings to all 2nd stage faces. String course above and below pointed arch openings. Pyramid spire with decorative wrought-iron finial.
Single storey porch to E of tower in angle. 3 lancets and carved "tree of life" panel above with inscribed ribbon; crenellated parapet on decorative corbel course. Outer angle buttressed. Entrance on E side through 4-centred arched door set in rectangular panel, hoodmoulded with label stops. Double doors as above.
E GABLE: detailed as S gable. Porch to hall intercepting at ground to N.
N GABLE: tall, central arched panel recess with cusped circular window.
INTERIOR: galleried (1889) on 3 sides. Decorative rafter and tie beam ceiling. Communion table centre N. Organ in panelled case brought from church at Fort William. Stained glass unattributed. Timber newel stair to S gallery in tower. Lower hall 1879, reconstructed for heating plant 1960.
Low coped parapet wall S and E, stepping down between piers, with wrought-iron gates and railings 1889.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Named after covenanter, John Blackadder, (1615-85). Originally Free Church. Building cost £592 with work of 1889 £1,500. Hall, 1896 cost £400. New hall by F W Hardie 1935 to N.
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