St Andrew's, Kelso

Designed by the well known Scottish architect Sir Robert Rowand Anderson in 1868, St Andrews episcopal church is category B listed and enjoys a prominent position overlooking the River Tweed, but is squeezed onto a very restricted town centre site. In addition to improvements in access and facilities for disabled people, the church hopes to form an office and meeting area for informal meetings and after church coffee that could be available for use throughout the week, providing a much needed facility for local people and visitors to nearby Kelso abbey.

The church garden will be substantially retained as the focus of the new extension Robin Kent Architecture & Conservation's model

Robin Kent Architecture & Conservation's design makes use of the small garden behind the church to form a circular cloister, retaining the garden as its focus, with a sloping roof to maximise lighting in the glazed meeting area and accommodates a first floor church office. New entrances, kitchen, toilets and storage are included, the linked narthex providing a new west door into the nave, to ease circulation and enable processions.

The plan wraps the new facilities round a circular cloister The garden behind the church is a valued resource but offers the possibility of improvement
The church enjoys a prominent position by the River Tweed in the centre of Kelso
The main facade of the church building will be unaltered
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