Interior. General view looking towards entrance.

Description Interior. General view looking towards entrance.

Date 1909

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

Catalogue Number BL 20529

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 730057, B 64621

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 nave, designed in a simple Classical style, has a barrel-vaulted ceiling, and is lined with Tuscan columns on octagonal pedestals which support the arches which separate it from the side aisles. It is lit naturally by large, round-headed windows, and artificially by elegant 'electroliers', electric light fittings which mimic the candelabra of the candlelight era. The border town of Coldstream was, like Gretna Green, a place where 'irregular' marriages were conducted. These marriages, although condemned by the Church of Scotland, occurred all along the border of Scotland and England, and were a form of marriage by consent, convenient for both English runaway couples, and Scottish Borderers who did not want to, or could not, marry in their own churches. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 51

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