Braid Church, 1, 1A Nile Grove, Morningside, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24596 71051 Coordinates 324596, 671051 — George Washington Browne, 1886. Octagonal church with central bellcote and Italian Renaissance details, set diagonally to street corner, church halls to N. Squared and snecked red sandstone rubble, cream ashlar dressings. Principal ground floor windows with chamfered or rounded arrises; corniced 1st floor windows (some architraved); eaves cornice. SW (FRONT) ELEVATION: pedimented ashlar front with semi-circular portico on coupled red sandstone Roman Ionic columns, dentilled cornice and balustraded parapet, architraved entrance surround with pilasters dividing 3 panelled doors. Large moulded Venetian window with egg and dart cornice above framed by flat pilasters; heavily coped pediment with louvred and pedimented arrowslit window. Stair towers and ashlar bell towers flanking. Bell towers with large round-arched and keystoned ashlar birdcage bellcotes with finialled pyramidal stone roofs. Small semi-circular stair towers flanking with rubble base, single windows to ashlar stairhead and half-conical finialled roofs. SE ELEVATION: 3 faces of octagon; cill course at 1st floor; centre face breaking eaves and pedimented over corniced Venetian window flanked by pilasters of banded rubble; tripartite windows to flanking faces; bipartite window at ground floor to left. NW ELEVATION: as SE elevation. NE (REAR) ELEVATION: blank rectangular organ chamber. CHURCH HALLS: 2 halls set obliquely to N and linked to church through passage to NW; small single storey rubble hall with ashlar gable to W and piend roof; 2 bipartite windows divided by flat pilasters; tall pedimented centre bay with angle pilasters; decorative galleried ventilato

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.