Hall, Kirliston Parish Church, The Square, Kirkliston

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 29/01/1987 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 12563 74364 Coordinates 312563, 674364 — 1843, additions (including tower) Hippolyte J Blanc 1880, modern additions to rear, William A Cadell, 1988. Gothic T-plan gabled church with square entrance tower and broach spire in SW re-entrant angle. Coursed stugged sandstone with polished dressings. Base course. Hoodmoulds over gable lancets. Diagonal buttresses. S ELEVATION: TOWER: 1880 3-stage entrance tower to left. Stone steps up to deeply chamfered pointed arch door. 2 small lancets above door. On W side of tower paired lancets light entrance porch; single blind lancet above. Cornice divides 3rd belfry stage. 2 louvred lancets on each elevation of belfry, divided by gablet capped pilasters (clasping at corners). Billeted corbel table. Gabled pointed arch; lucarnes to stone broached spire. Finialled half pyramids at base. S gable articulated by 2 tall lancet windows. Clock in gablehead. Porch entrance in re-entrant SE angle. Steps up to chamfered pointed arch door. E ELEVATION: paired lancets. W ELEVATION: paired lancets in gable with W elevation of entrance tower to S. N ELEVATION: modern additions to rear. Horizontal glazing in lancets. Slate roof. Saw-tooth coping to skews, cross finials. INTERIOR: now modern church hall, reconstrcuted in 1988. BOUNDARY WALL: squared rubble wall with slab ashlar coping. Higher wall to W with semi-circular coping. — Ecclesiastical building no longer in use as such, now a church hall. Foundation stone laid by Dr Thomas Chalmers the great Free Church Leader. It was financed mainly by James Maitland Hog, one of the 5 founding elders, and the spire was added in 1880 as a memorial to him. In 1945 the building was converted to a con

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.