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Latitude: 55.93 / 55°55'48"N
Longitude: -3.21 / 3°12'36"W
OS Eastings: 324493
OS Northings: 671433
OS Grid: NT244714
Mapcode National: GBR 8KP.8R
Mapcode Global: WH6SS.N6MT
Plus Code: 9C7RWQJQ+2X
Entry Name: Gospel Hall, 140 Morningside Road, Morningside, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 140 Morningside Road, Old Morningside School, Gospel Hall
Listing Date: 14 December 1970
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 364874
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB27612
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200364874
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Morningside
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1823. Small single storey 3-bay rectangular-plan schoolhouse with later side wings (1980). Cream sandstone, droved ashlar front and sides, rubble rear with droved quoins. Base course; eaves band. E (FRONT) ELEVATION: advanced bay at centre with single window, breaking eaves in square ashlar panel bearing clock and linked to roof with half-piend roof. Outer bays with entrance doors under deep cornices with stylised brackets, modern doors, rectangular fanlights (door to left with fanlight of 4 oval panes, to right 4 rectangular panes). Single storey flat-roofed modern side wings to right and left.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: single windows, some blocked and obscured by extensions.
Timber sash and case windows with plate glass glazing; slate piend roof, lead flashings; small louvred conical iron chimney to rear, rooflight to N.
INTERIOR: single room with plain plastered cove ceiling.
Stepped rubble boundary wall with semi-circular coping, plain cast-iron gate and railings.
The school was built by public subscription largely on the initiative
of George Ross, an advocate resident int Morningisde. IN 1892, South Morningside School, Comiston Road opened and the old Morningside School closed. Today it is used as a gospel hall.
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