Church Overview

Designed by John Henderson, the church was completed in 1857. An ecclesiastically correct early English Gothic style built in whinstone rubble with buff sandstone dressing. Steep pitched roof of Welsh lowland slate with skew coped gables. Single compartment choir / nave with a burial aisle and an entry porch in the north elevation and a lean to roofed vestry in south elevation. Windows are paired with fluted tracery and high quality stained glass. Curved Caen stone pulpit gifted by the Duke of Rutland and the encaustic tiles in the chancel were provided by Lady Scarborough.

Services

Scottish Episcopal service on fourth Sunday of each month at 10.30, Since the closure of St Isodore’s in Biggar, Roman Catholic services held at midday each Sunday. 

Opening Arrangements

Now in the care of the Biggar & Upper Clydesdale Museum. Visits can be made by appointment. 

Disclaimer

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