Trinity College Church Apse, (Between High Street and Jeffrey Street), Chalmer's Close

Heritage listing

Category A Date Added 14/12/1970 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 26055 73738 Coordinates 326055, 673738 — John Lessels, 1872, incorporating parts of Trinity College Church by John Halkerston, 1460-1531, (demolished 1848 and relocated to present site, 1872 - see Notes). Exists as rectangular plan choir and buttressed apse; grey coursed sandstone ashlar; string and eaves course enriched with paterae; gargoyles; parapet to N and S elevations. Traceried windows all with headstopped hoodmoulds; carved capital (and other) fragments from demolished building set within walls in all elevations; also placed within curtilage. W (CHALMER'S CLOSE) ELEVATION: single tall pointed gable; pointed loop-traceried window; cusped oculus above. E (REAR) ELEVATION: apsed gable; 3 tall plain lancets (tracery destroyed - see Notes); 3 staged buttresses with gabletted, crocketed finials; niches at window-heads. S ELEVATION: 2 storeys 3 bays; entrance at outer left with 2-leaf timber boarded door, modern glazed timber vestibule. Pointed traceried windows, 3 forming a clerestorey, 3 aisle windows. N ELEVATION: surviving outline of later pitched roof extension projecting just beyond parapet; infill of squared and snecked sandstone; remnants of 2 original arches, infilled and rendered; 2 niche canopies below string course. Plain frosted glass; closely spaced horizontal astragals. Saddleback grey slate roof; coped gablehead stack; circular clay cans. Cast iron rainwater goods. INTERIOR: 2-storey; tierceron ribbed and vaulted ceiling; richly-carved bosses; vault shafts on carved corbels; slender wall shafts on carved corbels in spandrels of arcading; string course above tops of arches; 2 image brackets between 3 tall apse lancets. Arcade piers lozenge-shap

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.