St Salvador's Episcopal Church, 61 Saughton Mains Street

Heritage listing

Category C Date Added 24/09/2013 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 21065 71627 Coordinates 321065, 671627 — Tarbolton and Ochterlony, 1938. Irregular-plan neo-Romanesque church with prominent square-plan tower with broached spire to entrance (E) elevation, entrance porch to N, flat roofed side chapel (Lady Chapel) to S creating T-plan. Tower with projecting gabletted stair tower to south corner, corbelled concrete band course. Rusticated stone cross to tower front. Rendered with concrete and chamfered stone dressings. Pointed arched paired windows to entrance porch with leaded glazing. 3 paired pointed arched windows with quatrefoils to knave; 3 trefoils to side chapel. 4 capped, strip buttresses to W gable, (outer 2 flying). Moulded eaves course. Leaded glazed windows, some stained glass to side chapel. Timber boarded entrance door. Slate roofs with tiled ridges, stone skews and corniced skewputts. Cast-iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: a good contemporary decorative scheme with unusual 3 section barrel-vaulted concrete roof structure. Rendered internally with pointed arch flanked by side doorways leading to chancel with vaulted ceiling and exposed stone arch with crucifix. Stone window surrounds. Early 20th century reredos screen. Marble altar table and flooring, terrazzo tiled floor elsewhere. Screen from side chapel reused from the earlier related hall (demolished). Single room to the top of the tower. Later 20th century alterations to form single storey facilities against west gable. BOUNDARY WALLS AND GATEPIERS: rendered dwarf walls with hedging and paired rounded gatepiers with rounded circular caps to (E) front elevation with taller rubble stone wall to south boundary. Simple metal gates. — Place of worship in use as suc

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.