St Serf's Church, Ferry Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 12/12/1974 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 24869 76101 Coordinates 324869, 676101 — G Mackie Watson, 1901 (chancel not completed until 1925), with single storey extension containing session house, kitchens etc (Alan Keith Robertson, 1924) and later hall (George Read, 1960). Decorated Gothic church with polygonal apse to E, projecting porch to SW and S transept (N transept, tower and spire not built - see Notes). Squared and snecked stugged pale (Ravelston) sandstone with red (Braids) sandstone dressings (1924 extension in matching stone, 1960 extension pebble-dashed). Projecting base course; continuous parapet; cross finials on ends of roof ridge. S ELEVATION: entrance in projecting porch with buttressed corners and castellated parapet in left bay; 2-leaf boarded timber door in stop-chamfered pointed-arched doorpiece with squared, dentilled hoodmould; narrow cusped windows in returns; paired narrow cusped windows above, flanked by gabletted buttresses. 3-light windows with cusped curvilinear tracery in pointed-arched openings with hoodmoulds and cill course, flanked by gabletted buttresses, in 3 subsequent bays. Projecting S transept; 2 tall 3-light windows with curvilinear tracery in pointed-arched openings with hoodmoulds and label stops, flanked by buttresses, with banded gable course above. Hoodmoulded 3-light window to vestry (base of intended tower) to right. E ELEVATION: entrance to stair tower and vestry to left; hoodmoulded stop-chamfered pointed arched doorpiece giving access to 3-sided open porch; 2 angled doors in chamfered, depressed-arched surrounds; small cusped window between; 2 narrow windows off-set to left above. Piend-roofed polygonal apse with decorative castellated parapet, gargoyl

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.