Christ Church Episcopal, 118 Trinity Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 15/07/1983 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24829 76858 Coordinates 324829, 676858 — John Henderson, 1854. Simple gothic church (converted as private house by Gordon and Dey, 1980) with 3-bay aisleless nave, 1-bay chancel, S-facing entrance porch and small spired tower to SW. Projecting organ chamber added at SE in 1882. N aisle and vestibule to NE added 1889 by Thomas Leadbetter. Grey Fife sandstone squared and snecked rubble with Craigleith ashlar dressings. S ELEVATION: 3-bay:- chamfered pointed-arched doorway to gabled porch at left, with hoodmould and label stops carved as male and female masks. Projecting gabled S transept (organ chamber) to right; pointed arched opening now reveals floors of modern house. Central bay has cusped mullioned bipartite window in Tudor-arched opening. W ELEVATION: 3-light window with circle of mouchettes in gable; small tower on square base continuous with gable wall, rising to octagonal belfry with trefoil openings to louvred bell chamber; winged animals under cornice of finialled stone spire, carved male mask at intersection of roof and tower. N ELEVATION: flat-roofed projecting N aisle in paler sandstone; 3 rectangular tripartite openings with trefoil cusped windows, 1 smaller on return to W. Projecting additional building with butressed chimney to left. Grey slate roof, scalloped on entrance porch. Cross-finialed sawtooth stone coped skews with gabletted terminations to porch and S transept. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such. Built by Walter Mitchell Goalen as a proprietary chapel, of which he was both incumbent and owner. Goalen was the son of a Leith ship builder. He had resigned his charge at Holy Trinity, Laurencekirk in 1852, and lived at Starb

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.