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Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh

A Category B Listed Building in Edinburgh, Edinburgh

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.9309 / 55°55'51"N

Longitude: -3.2525 / 3°15'9"W

OS Eastings: 321841

OS Northings: 671573

OS Grid: NT218715

Mapcode National: GBR 88P.NF

Mapcode Global: WH6SS.06G5

Plus Code: 9C7RWPJW+8X

Entry Name: Stenhouse Saughton Church, Gorgie Road, Edinburgh

Listing Name: Gorgie Road, Stenhouse-Saughton Church (Church of Scotland), Halls, Boundary Walls and Railings

Listing Date: 26 October 1989

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 371016

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB30211

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200371016

Location: Edinburgh

County: Edinburgh

Town: Edinburgh

Electoral Ward: Fountainbridge/Craiglockhart

Traditional County: Midlothian

Tagged with: Church building

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Description

T Aikman Swan, architect, 1935. Gothic with Scots
vernacular detailing.
Cruciform church with polygonal apse to S and tower to NW.
To E lower hall range of 1912.
Snecked cream sandstone with polished ashlar dressings,
margins and quoins.
N elevation: main advanced central
gable with central ogee-headed window feature with moulded
architraves. To right square 3-stage tower with recessed
door to ground. Louvred belfry stage. Tower has shallow
pitch pyramidal copper roof.
4-bay nave with side aisles and clearstorey all round
arched windows with small-pane leaded glazing. Porch to
NW with moulded archivolt around recessed double leaf doors.
Interior: panelled low backed pews. Brick interior walls,
arcaded side aisles.
Timber panelled ceiling, dado panelled apse with elders'
pews.
Halls: 2 detached halls to SW of church. To S roughcast
with snecked ashlar 1930's porch. To W 5-bay rectangle
dated 1912, stugged ashlar with round arched windows; slate
roof with central fleche.
Boundary walls and railings: low coped ashlar wall supports
simple cast-iron railings.

Statement of Interest

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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