St. Giles Parish Church, Kilgraston Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/01/1992 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25560 71889 Coordinates 325560, 671889 — Robert Morham, 1871. English Gothic Church. Cruciform-plan with tower and steeple to W, Church hall and additins to rear. Squared and snecked yellow sandstone with polished ashlar dressings; contrasting red sandstone pilasters and colonettes. Coped base course; buttresses and clasping buttresses; foliate capitals; pointed-arched plate traceried windows; cornice, corbelled in parts. TOWER AND STEEPLE: square-plan, 3-stage tower advanced from nave at centre of 3-bay W elevation; central gabled entrance with broad pointed-arched doorway; 3 red sandstone colonettes flanking with fleuron studded and moulded surround above; carved foliate patera set in gablehead; 2-leaf boarded doors with decorative wrought-iron hinges; 3-light fanlight. 2 narrow windows above entrance under M-shaped hoodmoulding. 3 narrow windows with relieving arches grouped to 2nd stage to W. 3rd stage of tower off-set above coping with arcaded apron below pointed-arched belfry louvres; angle buttresses; cornice to belfry section with arcaded balustrade above, broken by gabletted clocks to each face; oiff-set pinnacles to each angle. Slender lucarned stone spire above. NAVE AND APSE: 3-bay W elevation: entrance and tower to centre bay (see above); gabled bays to outer left and right with coped blind arcade at ground, pierced by square-headed windows with stop-chamfered reveals; carved foliate paterae in spandrels; tall 2-light windows above. S elevation: buttresses dividing 4-bays, excluding 2-bay trnasept (see below); small bipartite window in bay to outer left; 3-light window at ground to 2nd bay with 2-light window above breaking eaves in gable; tall, na

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.