Dean Parish Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 01/09/2000 Supplementary Information Updated 31/08/2023 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 23817 74161 Coordinates 323817, 674161 — Dunn and Findlay, 1902-3. Cruciform Gothic church with shallow chancel and narrow side aisles. Spired tower to NE, slated wooden lantern at crossing and piend roofed church hall to W. Bull-faced squared and snecked pink sandstone with droved red sandstone dressings. Prominent stepped buttresses to corners. Hoodmoulded windows and doors with carved label stops (except in W elevation of hall), some paired windows. Y-traceried windows with chamfered margins. Moulded corniced eaves. Significant organ to interior. E (DEAN PATH) ELEVATION: roughly 4 bay gable with entrance and base of tower to right (N), flanked by gabletted buttresses. Paired lancet windows at ground floor. Moulded cill course beneath tall triple lancet windows above. Louvered mandorla in gable with decorative margin. Stone crucifix at gable apex. TOWER: entrance in shallow porch at base of tower; steps up to 2 leaf timber panelled door with cast-iron handles, set in deeply chamfered surround. Quatrefoil panel in tympanum. Paired lancets at 1st stage of tower with arrowslits above. Louvered lancets to belfry. Corner buttresses of tower terminating in decorative pinnacles. 4 louvered lucarnes to stone spire. S (RAVELSTON TERRACE) ELEVATION: roughly 8 bays, with large transept gable end projecting to left (W) with prominent corner buttresses; flanked by porch to far left (W) and polygonal porch to right (E) with further gabled porch to far right (E). Small paired lancet windows to nave gable; lean-to aisle and porch to left (W). Tall paired lancet windows to transept gable; Y-traceried windows with deep chamfered sur

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.