St Mark's Episcopal Church, St Mark's Place, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 30851 73632 Coordinates 330851, 673632 — 1826 with later alterations by Hay and Henderson, 1892. 3-bay rectangular-plan Neo-Classical church with churchyard. Polished ashlar to NE elevation, squared and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings to original side elevations; bull-faced squared and snecked sandstone to later chancel to rear. Broad base course to outer bays of front elevation, broad entablature with dentilled cornice and blocking course. NE (PORTOBELLO HIGH STREET) ELEVATION: semicircular bowed bay to centre with 4 engaged Roman Doric columns; 4 ashlar steps with wrought-iron handrails; 3-leaf panelled door to centre with ovoid-paned fanlight above; blinded windows flanking. Consoled and pedimented windows to outer bays with balustraded aprons, round-arched lights set in timber panels. Doric pilasters clasping angles. SE (ST MARK'S PLACE) ELEVATION: 4-bay with later 2-bay addition. Round-arched windows at ground, segmental-arched windows above with round, leaded openings. Round-arched architraved doorway to gabled porch in bay to right of later addition; boarded door with semicircular plate glass fanlight above; window at 1st floor with rusticated architrave and leaded glass to segmental-arched opening. Window at 1st floor outer left. SW (REAR) ELEVATION: Venetian window to centre with rusticated architrave. NW ELEVATION: as SE elevation except blank bays to later chancel. Leaded windows, some with stained glass. Grey slate piend and platformed roof to original with flat-headed dome above semicircular bay to centre of principal elevation; piended slate roof to chancel to rear. INTERIOR: 3 glazed doors with original brass fittings; multi-paned

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.