London Road Church, London Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/06/1996 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 26910 74502 Coordinates 326910, 674502 — John Starforth, 1874; Norman Reid (consolidation and modernisation), 1965. H-plan Gothic church on prominent corner site with square-plan steepled tower to SE corner and adjoining Tudor hall and offices to N. Predominantly bullfaced snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Base course, eaves course. Staged buttresses. Lancet windows, predominantly in groups of 2 or 3 in overarches beneath hoodmoulds; sloping cills; stop-chamfered margins; geometric tracery. Timber-boarded doors with ornate wrought-iron hinges, in shouldered openings. S (LONDON ROAD) ELEVATION: 5-bay elevation defined by buttresses. To centre, 3-bay gable: 2-leaf door to centre with engaged colonetted gablet porch; flanking to left and right, paired colonetted bipartite windows. Above, tripartite window to centre with bipartite windows to left and right; scalloped triangular opening to gablehead. Buttress to left terminating in gablet and pinnacle. To outer left bay, door in pointed overarch to ground, bipartite window above; quatrefoils set in roundels to frieze below eaves. To outer right, advanced tower (see below). SE TOWER: slightly battered square plan 2-stage tower with octagonal stone spire. To 1st stage: frieze of roundels and stringcourse dividing 1st and 2nd stages; to S elevation, door in pointed overarch to ground, single lancet above, triple lancet further above; to E elevation, bipartite window; to N, blank wall with quadrant stair tower to re-entrant angle. To 2nd stage: angle buttresses; bipartite louvred window to each elevation; pinnacle to each corner. To spire: to base, single louvred window to each elevation with lucarne above; gable

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.