Salisbury Church, Grange Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/01/1992 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 26308 72180 Coordinates 326308, 672180 — Robert Paterson, 1862-63. Continental Gothic church. Rectangular-plan;3-stage bell-tower to SE corner; church hall adjoining to W. Squared and snecked sandstone with polished ashlar dressings. Coped base course; string course above ground floor; contrasting polished ashlar and rock-fased dressings at pointed-arched window heads, doorways and wheel window; chamfered reveals to bipartite windows; remaining windows and doors architraved; foliate capitals to nook-shafts and colonnette-mullions. E (CAUSEWAYSIDE) EVALUATION: 3-bay including tower (see below) advanced to outer left. Steps up to central gabled and buttressed porch; decorative quatrefoil set in gablehead; deeply chamfered moulded surround to pointed-arched doorway; 2-leaf panelled doors; nook-shafted door frame with decorative timber infill above. Wheel window above porch, breaking eaves in steeply-pitched gable head with trefoil window deep-set in vesica. 2-light geometric windows at ground and 1st floor; deep-set boarded door in narrow pointed-arched doorway flanking ground floor window to right. S (GRANGE ROAD) ELEVATION: 6-bay including tower (see below) advanced to outer right. 2-light geometric windows in all bays at ground and smalller in gallery level above. Pointed-arched doorway forming entrance to adjoining church hall through buttress to main building; boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges. W ELEVATION: church hall at ground floor (see below); 3-light geometric traceried window above. TOWER: 1st stage: small bipartite window to W; pointed-arched architravedoorway to S boarded door with decorative wrought-iron hinges; coped clasping buttress

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.