St Mungo's Episcopal Church, Ladycroft, Balerno

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 26/10/1994 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 16386 66516 Coordinates 316386, 666516 — R Rowand Anderson, 1869. Small, plain, rectangular-plan Gothic church with steeply pitched roof. Painted harl with painted ashlar margins to lancet windows; quoin strips. E ELEVATION: paired lancets with round window at centre above. Spindly cast-iron cross finial at apex. W ELEVATION: stepped buttress at centre; gabled bell-cote with curved batter crowning apex; flanking lancets at ground. Lean-to porch entrance to outer left; boarded, 2-leaf door. Unsympathetic modern flat-roofed, glass fronted timber porch and hall extension to outer right linking main church with cottage. N ELEVATION: 4 bays divided by buttresses; 3-lancet nave with outer right porch entrance. Leaded and stained glass lancets. Purple slate; lead flashings. Ashlar coping to skews; ashlar coping to bell-cote gable. INTERIOR: main entrance through modern addition; white granite baptismal font to the memory of John David Hill immediately inside door. Painted brick interior; dark stained dado and scissor braced roof. East windows 1927; depicting baptism and resurrection of Christ; dove in roundel. St Mungo and Virgin and Child stained glass windows to outer right and left of N wall by John Blyth, 1957. St Margaret window at centre by William Wilson, 1959. Plain 20th century altar furniture. COTTAGE: single storey, 3-bay, symmetrical rectangular-plan cottage connected to church at SE via modern addition. Painted harl; raised ashlar cills. Segmental headed 4-panelled door; plate glass fanlight; flanking segmental-headed windows. 4-pane sash and case windows; grey slate roof; raised ashlar skews; rendered and coped apex stacks. BOUNDARY WALL AND GATEPIERS: s

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.