Liberton Northfield Parish Church and Hall, 280 Gilmerton Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/04/1996 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 28016 69949 Coordinates 328016, 669949 — J W Smith, 1869, with later belfry stage and spire by Peddie and Kinnear, 1873. T-plan with later halls and offices adjoining to W. Early English Gothic church with inventive interior, E gable to road, tower to NE, triple gabled transepts to N and S. Bull-faced stone-cleaned cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; base course, string course, buttresses and finials to gables. Red and cream structural polychrome to openings on E elevation and base of tower. E ELEVATION: to Gilmerton Road. TOWER: to right, square 3-stage buttressed tower, with steps to doorway at base with gabled surround, timber boarded door. Small window lighting stair above. Later (1873) 2nd and 3rd stages with pair of pointed-arched, louvred belfry windows to each elevation, corbel table to wallheads, stone octagonal broached spire above with poppyhead finial and small lucarnes. Gable to left with 3 tall, plate-traceried lancets, hoodmoulds with uncarved block stops. Small trefoil-headed ventilator opening to gablehead with moulded cill course set in decorative cusped arch with dwarf engaged red stone columns with foliate capitals. Second pointed arch-headed doorway in gabled aisle to left, string course stepped over, small blind oculus above. N & S ELEVATIONS: plain, tall single lancet windows lighting nave, 3 smaller lancets to gabled side transepts. Grey slates, 3 slated triangular louvred ventilators to main roof on each slope. Ashlar finial to E, ashlar stack to W gable. INTERIOR: raked floor, central block of timber pews, white painted walls. Ornate arch-braced timber roof, radial bosses with star plate tracery springing from short ashlar

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.