Cairns Memorial Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/02/1993 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 23077 72353 Coordinates 323077, 672353 — Robert Macfarlane Cameron, 1900-1902, church. David Robertson, 1896, hall. Early continental gothic church with tower and octagonal spire at SE corner in re-entrant angle formed with aisle. Rich cream squared and snecked sandstone with contrasting red ashlar dressings and base-course. Rectangular shouldered windows, chamfered arrises. Moulded eaves. Earlier squared and snecked pale sandstone gabled hall with grey slates to W. S (GORGIE ROAD) ELEVATION: hoodmoulded pointed portal and 2-leaf plank door with decorative iron hinges and 5-light fanlight; hoodmoulded octofoils and gabled buttresses flanking; above, in central gable, geometric 4-light window with blind arcade below; celtic cross at crest. To left single bay stair tower gabled on return with windows to each floor; further 2-storey half-piended bay adjoins hall to W; window above earlier 2-leaf door (original entrance to hall) with fanlight in pointed arch. TOWER: to SE 5-stage square tower. S ELEVATION: window at ground, blank square plaque above, pair of windows at 3rd stage, deeply chamfered reveals to hoodmoulded oculus at 4th stage, 5th stage narrower, framed, with pair of hoodmoulded louvred lancets, moulded cill course and corbelled, coped parapet with plain rainwater spouts. E ELEVATION: door (smaller version of main portal) at ground, pair of windows with hoodmould course above, then blank until oculus and upper stage as before. Polygonal red tiled spire with annulet course and patterned tiling above; weathercock. E (TYNECASTLE TERRACE) ELEVATION: 2-storey 5-bay, with tower at outer left. 2 gabled N bays of transept advanced with bell-cast roof; bipartit

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