Interior. General view looking towards altar and pulpit.

Description Interior. General view looking towards altar and pulpit.

Date 1909

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 20526

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 730061, B 64624

Scope and Content Nave, Coldstream Parish Church, High Street, Coldstream, Scottish Borders Coldstream Parish Church, originally built in 1795, was rebuilt in 1906 to plans by the architect, John More Dick Peddie, which incorporated the bell turret and cap of the earlier church. The simple early 20th-century interior was photographed in 1909 by the distinguished architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. The five-bayed nave, designed in a simple Classical style, has a barrel-vaulted ceiling and Tuscan columns on octagonal pedestals which support the arches of the side aisles. The furnishings are simple except for the minister's chair at the far end (centre) which has an octagonal canopy in a Jacobean style, and a stone pulpit (right of centre) donated by the Earl of Home in 1906. The parish of Coldstream, mentioned in charters as early as 1147, lies in the southern part of Berwickshire, bordered on the east and south by the River Tweed which divides it from England. The first parish church in Coldstream was built in 1705. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 51

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