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Latitude: 55.9588 / 55°57'31"N
Longitude: -3.1547 / 3°9'17"W
OS Eastings: 328002
OS Northings: 674574
OS Grid: NT280745
Mapcode National: GBR 8XC.GF
Mapcode Global: WH6SM.HHZ9
Plus Code: 9C7RXR5W+G4
Entry Name: St Ninian's And St Triduana RC Church, 230 Marionville Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 230 Marionville Road, Church of SS Ninian and Triduana (Roman Catholic) Including Boundary Walls and Gates
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364763
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27537
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 230 Marionville Road, St Ninian's And St Triduana Rc Church
ID on this website: 200364763
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Craigentinny/Duddingston
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Church building
Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 1933. Modern Scottish Gothic. Nave, blind aisles with side chapels to centre. Snecked Craigmillar rubble, Darney and Blaxter dressings. Brick and timber extension to E.
EXTERIOR: main body of church to right (W). Nave without clerestorey, blind aisles project W beyond nave gable to create porches. Transept in form of side chapels with paired 3-light cusped windows. Plain bipartites to porches. Large pointed arch W window of 6 lancets, intersecting tracery and thick centre mullion.
To left (E) nave reduces in height. 3-light windows with splayed reveals N and S (see Notes). Church continued to E with brick, timber construction, double pitch roof with cat-slide.
Double pitch roof to nave, single pitched to chapels and aisles, all with crowsteps. Roof of grey/green slate.
INTERIOR: aisles arcaded with segmental pointed arches springing from stone piers with rounded ashlar half-column dressings. Roof of oak. Plastered walls.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATES: rubble stone boundary wall to N, E and W. Wrought-iron gates to N.
Ecclesiastical building in use as such. Unfinished - was to have had a large square central tower, external circular stair tower and E wing similar to W but longer and with clerestorey. Existing 3-light windows at centre are abbreviated lancets of unbuilt tower. Screen of modern design recently placed across nave at mid-point. E end now a church hall. Shares grounds and boundary walls with Marionville House. Opened 28 May 1933. Contractors Messrs J & R Watson.
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