Balerno Parish Church, 1 Johnsburn Road, Balerno

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 26/10/1994 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 16234 66508 Coordinates 316234, 666508 — James Fairley, 1888. Rectangular-plan Gothic church. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone with ashlar margins and dressings. Base course; string course; stop-chamfered reveals. NE ELEVATION: 3-bay symmetrical front; 2-stage, gabled block at centre with flanking full-height gabletted buttresses; flanking returns of gabled transept bays. Stone steps with low parapet walls to round-arched door at centre, sharply-cut chamfered moulding; triangulated hoodmould, label-stops; 2-leaf boarded door with cast-iron hinges; narrow lancets flanking door. Large bipartite plate traceried window at upper stage; hoodmould; arrowslit at gablehead; cross final at apex. Flanking transept bays, that to left with pointed arch window at ground. NW ELEVATION: 4-bay with gabled porch to outer right. Full-height gabled transept bay advanced to outer left; round window just below gablehead. 3-bay nave to right divided by gabletted buttresses, bay at centre with paired lancets. Gabled porch advanced to outer right, boarded door at NW side, 3 windows at right return. SE ELEVATION: gabled transept bay to outer right, steps to boiler room at basement; cast-iron railings; rectangular window at 1st stage; round-headed at upper stage. 3-bay nave to left, bays divided by gabletted buttresses, paired lancets at centre. SW ELEVATION: gable with half-piended porch/vestry addition to outer left. Rose window at gablehead, flanking lancets; bipartite window at NE elevation, stone mullion; 6-pane over 4-pane sash and case. Leaded windows (square-pane), stained glass borders. Grey slate roof, ashlar coping to skews; shouldered wallhead stack at SE elevation, sma

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.