Morningside United Church, 1-3 Morningside Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1993 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24541 71925 Coordinates 324541, 671925 — James McLachlan, 1926-1929. Small Art Deco-Romanesque church with gabled side aisles, slender campanile and pavilions, halls and offices behind chancel to E. Cream sandstone, bull-faced coursed and squared rubble with polished ashlar detailing. Round-arched openings with pronounced rubble voussoirs; principal windows with square chamfered reveals in ashlar panels; ashlar mullions; lugged gables with shaped apexes. W ELEVATION: gabled nave with off-set clasping buttresses (as angle pilasters) rising above wallhead in stylised Art Deco coping with motif of 4 squares in ashlar panel; tall tripartite window in round-arched panel to gable with carved pelican flanked by A and O symbols at head; arrowslit window in gablehead. Recessed single-bay side aisles with stepped parapet and lancet windows. 2 small square-plan arched entrance pavilions with swept pyramidal roofs flanking, connected to W gable by vestibule wall of 2 windows, arched openings with sliding and folding cast-iron lattice gates. Pavilions linked by low rubble wall with ashlar diamond balusters and ashlar coping. S ELEVATION: 3-bay gabled side aisle to centre with clasping buttresses and tall bipartite windows in round-arched panels with carved roundels to each gable, small arrowslit windows in gableheads. Tall slender square-section campanile with small doorway in re-entrant angle to left, top stage with bipartite openings to each face with ashlar mullions and cushion capitals, finialled bellcast roof. Flat-roofed vestibule to left with 2 paired windows and single window forming link with entrance pavilion.To right flat-roofed link of 3 paired windows and depre

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.