St Paul's Church, 9 Lorne Street, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 15/07/1983 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 26814 75416 Coordinates 326814, 675416 — J Graham Fairley, 1884-85 and 1903. Early Decorated church, oriented N-S of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. Aisleless 3-bay nave with stairhall projections of differing design, lancet windows in N bay, that on W intended as base of tower, transepts and sanctuary on S deepened in 1903; halls sited transversely to rear at S end. N (LORNE STREET) ELEVATION: gable front with stairhalls flanking, central doorway with 2 orders of shafts with foliate caps, trumeau and tympanum with 3 cusped circlets, flanking lancets with linked hoodmoulds. Large 4-light window above in recessed pointed-arched panel flanked by colonnettes, window divided 2-2 with cusped circlet plate tracery, big cinquefoil over; gablehead with vesica and flanking circlets; massive angle buttresses, rising into blind-arcaded octagonal pinnacles with polygonal ashlar caps. STAIRHALL: W stairhall has piended roof, S stairhall gabled to Lorne Square with circular window over 3 lancets with straight hoodmould. NAVE: flanks of nave buttressed 2-tier, triplet windows below, simple plate traceried 2-lights above; transepts have large untraceried circular windows with pointed hoodmould over deepening voussoirs. S (REAR) ELEVATION: smaller circular window at hall gable. Square-leaded-paned glazing to fixed windows. Grey slate roof. INTERIOR: U-plan gallery on columns, hammerbeam type roof with tie beam and king posts at the base of the upper arch braces. Elaborate sanctuary, deepened 1903, with marble steps, pine panelling, divided organ case by Brindley & Foster 1903, and S window of 5 lights, stained glass of 1894; octagonal pulpit, red English alabast

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.