War Memorial, Colinton Road, Edinburgh

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 30/03/1993 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 23979 71478 Coordinates 323979, 671478 — James B Dunn, 1930-32; war memorial J A Carfrae, circa 1920. Large 2-storey H-plan severe classical school with central hall. Pink-grey Doddington sandstone and cream harl, ashlar front, rear and sides with dressings of sandstone and reconstituted stone. Base as plinth; channelled quoins to front; bays divided by giant pilasters with moulded capitals; single windows to each bay and each floor. NW (COLINTON ROAD) ELEVATION: 39-bay; slightly advanced 3-bay entrance portal at centre with 15-bay ranges and 3-bay advanced pavilions flanking. Entrance portal with fretted guilloche dividing floors, blank frieze and dentilled pediment; channelled ground floor; round-arched doorway with deep cavetto reveals, 2-leaf panelled door and semi-circular astragalled fanlight in central bay, doorway flanked by short balustrade and decorative wrought-iron lamp standards; central 1st floor window architraved; large galleon weathervane finial to pediment. Ranges with flat panelled aprons to windows; tall parapet. Pavilions with rusticated quoins, parapet bearing tablet and urn finials. SE (REAR ELEVATION): 53-bay; rubble base course; bays divided by shallow pilasters; plain tall parapet; 3 central bays slightly advanced, channelled at gound floor, divided by pilasters with moulded capitals carrying blank frieze, cornice and parapet bearing tablet, entrance door to centre bay. 2 secondary doors 5 bays to left and right of centre set in moulded ashlar panels. 3 end bays to each side slightly advanced with parapet bearing plain tablet. SW AND NE COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: 6-bay central hall with square flat-roof twin clock towers to SE; 2-storey pro

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.