Warrender Church

Heritage listing

Category B Date Added 19/03/1993 Local Authority Edinburgh Planning Authority Edinburgh Burgh Edinburgh NGR NT 25013 72055 Coordinates 325013, 672055 — Robert Macfarlane Cameron, dated 1891. Italian Renaissance style church and church hall converted for residential and office use. Lightly droved red Dumfries ashlar sandstone with polished dressings to S and E; squared and snecked cream sandstone to hall, N and W with red polished dressings. Base course; cill ocurse; eaves cornice; panelled 2-leaf doors. E WHITEHOUSE LOAN elevation: advanced and buttressed gabled bay with lower former stairtowers flanking to left and right, set in re-entrant angle formed with aisles. Round-arched pilastered and keystoned doorpiece with frieze and cornice; panelled door; geometric glazing pattern to fanlight; Ionic columns to pilaster flanked Venetian window above in voussoir blocks; slit window and broken pediment with decorative carving above in steep pediment. Small single windows in bays to left and right of centre. Transomed single windows with carved heraldic aprons under eaves to former stairtowers. S GREENHILL TERRACE elevation: stairtower to outer right, 5-bay former aisle divided above ground floor by pilasters, brick link to former church hall to outer left. Corniced architraved doorway to pediemnted lower 2-stage stairtower; single window flanking to right; tripartite window at 1st floor. 5 bays with capitalled mullions and lintel angle modillions to bipartite windows at ground floor; tall round-arched windows above; panelled parapet above deep eaves cornice. 3 round-arched windows at ground to gable of former church hall; slit window set in gable head. N ELEVATION: stairtower to outer left, detailed as above except 2 single windows at ground. 5-bay main block; bipartites at g

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.