Christ Church, Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24475 71930 Coordinates 324475, 671930 — Hippolyte Jean Blanc, dated 1875. Cruciform-plan Early English Gothic church with shallow transepts, 5-sided apse and ambulatory, N tower and tall ashlar spire, church hall in basement to rear; cream sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings; moulded pointed-arch windows mostly with ashlar mullions and quatre- or cinquefoil plate tracery; slender shafts and colonnettes with stiff-leaf capitals; base course; off-set gablet-capped buttresses; sloping cills; moulded eaves course; ashlar mullioned rectangular basement windows with cusped heads and ornamental cast-iron grilles. TOWER: set in re-entrant angle between apse and transept; 3-stages; set-back buttresses; octagonal stairtower with arrowslit windows on NW angle; main entance porch to E comprised of pointed-arch doorway of 3 orders in gabled panel, shafts with annulets in jambs, shouldered-arch panelled door, frieze of blind roundels to lintel, tympanum with stepped 3-light blind arcading, trefoil oculus in gablehead; shouldered-arch doorway to stairtower to W with stone forestair and ashlar balustrade. Arrowslit windows at 2nd stage. 3rd stage: tripartite windows to all sides, central mullioned light with cinquefoil and pierced spandrels, clustered shafts, blind outer lights of slender pointed arches, cill band of blind roundels. Top stage: octagonal spire, flying buttresses to ornate ashlar corner pinnacles with niches and blind arcading to bases and polygonal ashlar caps, 4 tall narrow ashlar louvred lucarness, 2 string courses with blind roundels and gablets. NAVE: Gabled W end wall with pointed-arch entrance door at basement level flanked by sma

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.