Gogar Kirkyard

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/12/1974 Supplementary Information Updated 23/03/2023 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 16822 72523 Coordinates 316822, 672523 — J A Williamson, 1890-91 incorporating 16th century chancel of original church as transept across S end. Rectangular-plan, buttressed nave with square tower at NW corner and transepts at S end (former chancel re-roofed with W porch added and S gablet). Random whinstone rubble with harl pointing, harled rubble for older masonry; white sandstone dressings; quoins; base course. Chamfered reveals. Crowstepped gables. Broad eaves. 2-light round-trefoil windows. Roll-moulded string and cill course. W ELEVATION: TOWER: 2-stage, square-plan. Paired windows at ground with relieving arch above outlined in whinstone; door at right return, 2-leaf boarded; blank left return. Bellcote stage 2 arch openings on each elevation. NAVE: 3-bay buttressed nave to right of tower, 2-light windows, terminating in tall crowstepped gable (16th century fabric), gabled whinstone porch at centre with angle buttresses, pointed arch, hoodmould, stop- chamfered reveal. E ELEVATION: 16th century gable to outer left, relieving arch in sandstone, part of original E window. 3-bay nave to right. S ELEVATION: harled rubble. Wallhead raised to whinstone gablet at centre, 2-light window with trefoil light in spandrel, hoodmould. N ELEVATION: gable with large 3-light window, large rosette in spandrel; angle buttresses. Tower to right, steps down to boiler room in basement of tower. Plate glass for lower panes, stained glass in trefoil heads and in N window rosette; all windows now with shutters; bellcote opening blocked. Grey slate roof with cast-iron, trefoil-punched cresting. Older masonry has shaped skewputts. INTER

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.