North Morningside Church, Morningside Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/07/1983 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24521 71864 Coordinates 324521, 671864 — David Robertson, 1879 ; Groves Raines Architects, internal alterations 1994 and 2000. Large Romanesque aisled church with church hall and vestry, orientated to S with NW tower. Grey sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. Base course; pendant corbel table at eaves; round-arched moulded openings on block imposts; pinnacles and buttresses with sawtooth ashlar pyramidal coping. N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION; (liturgical W); finialled gable; tower to right; central cross finialled gabled entrance with deeply chamfered doorway with chevron carving and colonnettes with scalloped capitals, small blind opening in gablehead, timber door with decorative cast-iron hinges, small tripartite window in semi-circular timber fanlight, cast-iron lam standards and railings flanking steps. Doorway flanked by bipartite window to right, tripartite to left, under row of blind intersecting arcading. Tall stepped and hoodmoulded tripartite window with nook-shafts and chevron carving to arches above; blind oculus with decorative carved moulding and hoodmould in gablehead. Small gabled stair hall on return to left with bipartite windows at ground and 1st floor; stepped string course above ground floor and oculus in gablehead on return. TOWER: 4 stages; off-set angle buttresses; battered base; 1st stage with further cross finialled gabled entrance to W face detailed as above, 2 windows under row of blind arcading to N face. 2nd stage with 2 windows with nook-shafts to N and W face, single window to S, pendant corbel table above. 3rd stage with tall transomed narrow stair window to S, N and W face. Top stage with louvred tripartite win

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.