Lochhart Memorial Parish Church and Hall, Albion Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 09/08/1995 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 27248 74917 Coordinates 327248, 674917 — Jeffrey Waddell and Young, 1927, aisled modern Gothic church en suite with church hall, 1900. N transept. Squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings; chamfered arrises. Hoodmoulds with foliate label stops. Stylised ashlar buttresses (broad and shallow) with battered coping. Battered cills. N (ALBION PLACE) ELEVATION: gabled stone porch to right (NW) with pointed arch door, deeply chamfered surround; 2-leaf boarded and part-lead-glazed floors and tripartite fanlight; stone cross finial. 3 bays of nave and aisle at centre; aisle with buttress dividing tripartite windows, clerestorey above lit by 3 round-arched windows. Gabled transept advanced to left (NE), 2-bay, with 2 pointed arch, 3-light windows with simple reticulated tracery and narrow dividing buttress; blind vesica in gablehead; flanking buttresses breaking eaves in steep, gabled pinnacles with blind arrowslit detailing. Bay to outer left largely blank with 2-leaf, square-headed, part-glazed door by re-entrant angle; heavy studded door hinge-brackets. W (ALBION ROAD) ELEVATION: gabled ?west end? with 5-light window with perpendicular tracery, cill course, blind gablehead slit and stone cross finial, buttresses flanking (detailed as transept). S ELEVATION: 5-bay with door to aisle at outer left; 4 tripartite windows to aisle and 9 round-arched narrow windows to clerestorey above; pointed arch lancet on aisle return to W. Single storey porch advanced at outer right to church hall linking with canted projection advanced to S; 2-leaf doors. Square, lead-paned glazing. Steeply pitched grey-green slate roof. Gablet skew blocks. Profiled eaves gutters. IN

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.