Gilmore Place Free Presbyterian Church, 63 Gilmore Place, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 23/01/1998 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24618 72656 Coordinates 324618, 672656 — Thornton Shiells and Thomson, 1880. 2-storey, rectangular-plan Gothic church with transepts and large rose window fronting Gilmore Place. Squared and snecked sandstone; polished sandstone ashlar dressings. Base course; string course below cill level to ground and 1st floors of front elevation; stepped buttresses to front gable and transepts; quoins; pointed arch openings; long and short surrounds. N (GILMORE PLACE) ELEVATION: steps to advanced gabled entrance porch; recessed 2-leaf timber door set in gabled surround; decorative strap hinges; moulded rosette motif to pointed arch above; flanking nook shafts with floreate capitals; moulded trefoil detail set in gablehead; carved finial. Single pointed arch windows flanking at ground. Recessed rose window in hoodmoulded pointed arch; stepped apron; nook shafts with foliate capitals. 3 pointed arch louvre slits to head of finialled gable. Single oculus above string course in flanking transepts; 3 pointed arch windows to ground; 2 pointed arch windows aligned above. E (UPPER GILMORE PLACE) ELEVATION: 8-bay. Steps to gabled entrance porch in transept bay to outer right; recessed 2-leaf boarded door; colonnettes support moulded pointed arch; recessed trefoil; hoodmould; ornamental label stops; 2 pointed arch windows aligned above; louvred pointed oculus at gable; pyramidal pinnacle to buttress at left. Tripartite pointed arch windows at ground in 3-bay intermediate section; bipartite pointed-arch windows aligned above; pierced quatrefoil. Pointed arch bipartite windows in advanced 2-bay gabled transept to left; repeated above, with pierced quatrefoils; arrow slit to head of gab

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.