St Philip's Parish Church, 14 Abercorn Terrace, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/12/1974 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 31237 73573 Coordinates 331237, 673573 — John Honeyman, 1875-1877; later addition of hall by J Graham Fairley, 1924-1925. Early English Gothic church set on prominent corner site. Stugged ashlar with droved ashlar dressings. Battered base course, moulded cill course to ground floor windows, houldmoulds to pointed-arch windows. SW (ABERCORN TERRACE) ELEVATION: 3-bay. 2-leaf boarded door to centre in moulded and columned doorpiece within gablet. Large traceried window above, small niche set in gablehead. Buttress to left of bay to centre. Window to outer left, single storey aisle. Square-section tower to outer right with set-back buttresses; variety of pointed-arched openings, with largest beneath eaves course, louvered and traceried; tall lucarned broach-spire with cast-iron finial (steeple 175 ft tall). SE (BRUNSTANE ROAD NORTH) ELEVATION: 6-bay with later (1926) 4-bay single storey addition to NE. Tower to outer left, as on SW elevation. Windows to each bay of aisle, with buttresses between each bay; bipartite windows at 1st floor. Porch in bay to outer right; blank at 1st floor. ADDITION: moulded string course above ground floor with coped parapet. 3rd, slightly advanced bay raised at eaves level to parapet wall and carved stone to centre; 2-leaf boarded door with segmental-arch 3-pane fanlight above. Bipartite leaded windows to 2 bay left of centre with single window between. Narrow windows to ground and 1st floor of bay to outer right; half-round-arched doorpiece with boarded door. Plate tracery to windows on SE elevation and smaller windows of SW elevation; geometric tracery to larger windows and to louvered openings to tower. Grey slated lucarned roof; fl

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.