St Matthew's Parish Church, 5 Braid Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 13/08/1987 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24570 70813 Coordinates 324570, 670813 — Hippolyte Jean Blanc, 1889-1890, halls 1896, chancel 1901. Early English Gothic church set on sloping terraces on corner site, cruciform-plan with side aisles, chancel, central flèche, vestry and church halls to SE. Red sandstone, squared and snecked rubble with polished dressings. Base course; pointed arch-openings with chamfered reveals, hoodmoulds and block label stops; offset gablet-capped buttresses, angled at corners; moulded and stepped string course rising to cill course of principal windows; sloping cills; eaves cornice; timber doors with intersecting lancet panelling. W elevation: framed by buttresses crowned at wallhead by polygonal pinnacles, slightly projecting vestibule at ground floor; moulded deeply chamfered doorway at centre with colonettes, 2-leaf doors with Y-tracery panelling; 2 bipartite windows of slender pointed arches with colonettes flanking; large 4-light window in off-set gablehead above framed by buttresses, with nook-shafts, slender mullions and Y-tracery with trefoils and central mandorla; stepped string course and small shafted window in finialled gablehead. Aisles: 6-bay; single storey side aisles with lean-to roof and paired narrow trefoil-headed windows. Pinnacled buttress to SW angle of S aisle. Main entrance doorway in shallow stepped surround in westernmost bay of N aisle, broader version of above door. Tripartite clerestorey windows of stepped lancets with blind trefoils in spandrels giving plate tracery effect. Ornate flèche over crossing with slated base, ornate timber carving and leaded spire with weathervane. N and S transepts: gabled end elevations each with 2 large 3-light win

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.