St Mary's Parish Church, 13 Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category A Group Category Details 100000019 - see notes Date Added 22/09/1965 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25578 74774 Coordinates 325578, 674774 — Thomas Brown, 1824, with later internal alterations. 5 x 4-bay classical church, 2-storey over concealed basement, 5-bay principal elevation to E centred by hexastyle portico and domed 4-stage steeple. Sandstone ashlar walls, polished to front elevation and droved to sides and rear. Deep base course at principal floor; band course at 1st floor; cornice and blocking course at eaves. E (PRINCIPAL) ELEVATION: symmetrical; Corinthian pilasters dividing bays, 6-panel 2-leaf timber doors with radial fanlights in centre 3 bays, round-arched windows with panelled aprons at ground in outer bays, architraved segmental-arched windows with panelled aprons in each bay at 1st floor. Ashlar steps straddling centre 3 bays, rising to hexastyle portico comprising shallow-pitched pediment supported on Corinthian columns. Raised wallhead rising behind pediment with steeple at centre, 1st and 2nd stages of square plan with each face advanced at centre; carved plaque to E face of lower stage; aedicule-like centrepieces to each face of upper stage comprising square panel containing clock face with with medallions carved at corners, flanked by pilasters rising to shallow-pitched pediment; Greek Doric columns set in corners of 2nd stage; circular 3rd and 4th stages, tempietto-like, 8 columns to each stage with louvered niches in alternate intercolumnation; steeple capped by attenuated pointed and ribbed dome surmounted by colonnaded circular lantern with weathervane to finial. S ELEVATION: asymmetrical; bay to outer right advanced as return of principal elevation, framed by Corinthian pilasters, with

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