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Latitude: 55.9757 / 55°58'32"N
Longitude: -3.2328 / 3°13'57"W
OS Eastings: 323165
OS Northings: 676540
OS Grid: NT231765
Mapcode National: GBR 8D5.NC
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.92V9
Plus Code: 9C7RXQG8+7V
Entry Name: St Margaret Mary's Presbytery, 87 Boswell Parkway, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 87 Boswall Parkway, St Margaret Mary's Presbytery
Listing Date: 16 September 1998
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 392609
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB45648
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200392609
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Forth
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Reginald Fairlie, 1939 with slightly later addition. Single storey, 9-bay, U-plan presbytery. Cape Dutch design. Brick base course, rendered and painted white above sill level. Brick sills to all windows.
S (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: symmetrical arrangement; circular-plan step up to central entrance with gabled porch; semicircular-headed recessed door with brick architrave, stepped back in 3 stages. 3 regularly fenestrated flanking bays terminating in projecting pavilion bays, each with 3-light window.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: pavilion bays at either end of entrance elevation extend N to form wings. That to E has central gabled entrance porch with doorway flanked by narrow windows; single bay to either side; that to N has small flat-roofed extension. W wing longer and terminates in projecting pavilion type bay (most of this wing is slightly later addition).
COURTYARD ELEVATIONS: present U-shaped plan forms courtyard area to N. Rear of main body of building has 4 wide semicircular-headed windows; 2 similar to W side, to N of pilaster marking end of original building.
Mainly 12-pane timber sash and case windows. Piended grey slate roof. Coped ridge stacks painted black and white: 3 to main body, 2 to E wing and 1 to N wing; round cans.
B group with adjacent St Margaret Mary's Church, also by Reginald Fairlie; designed as a part of the church complex here.
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