Leith St Andrew's Church, 410-412 Easter Road, Leith, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 13/03/1995 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 27237 75677 Coordinates 327237, 675677 — Hardy & Wight, 1880-1 with addition of 1902. Gothic church. T-plan, oriented NE to SW with tall tower and spire at N, corresponding transeptal porch and stair tower at N end of SE elevation. 5-bay rectangular nave, with shallow transepts at S end, aisles connecting to entrance porches, gallery at NE end. Hall sited transversely at SW end wall of church. Stugged, squared and snecked sandstone walls with polished ashlar dressings, droved at arrises. TOWER: 5-stage with octagonal ashlar spire. Moulded chamfer to doorway of pointed-arch doorway of double order to NW face, hoodmould over with floral stops. Clasping buttresses to ground floor, 1st floor, band and string course, double lancet with hoodmould and floral stops. Triple lancet at 2nd floor, lancet at 3rd floor with string course above. Pointed-arch window with louvres to upper (belfry) stage, hoodmould with floral stops over. Blind arcaded and cusped parapet, with square pinnacles at corners. Octagonal ashlar spire with stone dormers to 4 faces, iron weathervane at apex. 2-leaf doors with iron handles and nails. Octagonal stair tower adjoining to N with circular upper stage and slit windows. NAVE AND TRANSEPTS: 2-storey, 5-bay hall. 3 centre bays to both side elevations framed by buttresses, base course at ground floor cill level, lean-to aisles at ground floor with double lancets to each bay, 4-centred, tripartite clerestory windows with plate tracery to upper level at each bay, cornices at eaves. Gabled transepts in bays to S, 2 lancets, hoodmoulds over with floral stops, carved Celtic cross at apex of NW transept. 2-storey gabled porch in penultimate right bay of

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.