St Christopher's Church And Hall Including Boundary Walls, Craigentinny Road

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 17/12/2010 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 29220 74761 Coordinates 329220, 674761 — James McLachlen 1934-8 (church); 1934-5 (hall). Cruciform-plan Neo-Romanesque exposed brick church with engaged tall square tower to S elevation; abutted to earlier church hall at SE; on prominent corner site. Variagated red brick in common bond (4th course Flemish headers), rat-trap bond with double strechers above windows to nave and church hall, brick eaves course to gables. Round-arched openings to church, flat-arched openings to hall; small narrow openings to apex of gables. Round-arched brick detailing with recessed herringbone bond infill and soldier course lintel above entrance openings. W (CRAIGENTINNY AVENUE) ELEVATION: gable flanked by shallow buttresses; tall tripartite window with brick mullions, central light taller. Single storey vestibules flanking gable with bi-partite windows. S (CRAIGENTINNY ROAD) ELEVATION: pitched roofed entrance porch to left, with 2-leaf timber and upper part glazed doors in recess. Paired gabled trancepts with tall bi-partite windows. Engaged tall and narrow square tower to right, with bipartite openings below dentiled cornice, decorative bellcast copper roof.. N ELEVATION: mirror of S elevation except tower; E pitch of left gable replaced in pantiles and extended to bottom of nave roof. E ELEVATION: tall single light to centre of gable; single lights to flanking side aisles. INTERIOR: (seen 2009) timber and glazed screen to entrance vestibule. Square brick piers with raised brick detailing to capitals supporting rendered segmental arches separating nave from side aisles and continued across transepts. Triangular timber buttresses to top of columns supporting projecting timber wal

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.