Craigmillar Park Church, Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh

Craigmillar Park Church is a Gothic style church built in 1878 by Hardy and Wight, with a church hall added in 1899. The building is constructed from cream-coloured sandstone rubble with polished ashlar dressings. It has a cruciform plan, with the church hall adjoining it to the north. A raised base course is visible, as are plate traceried windows on the east, forming the chancel. The exterior features pinnacled buttresses and chamfered architraves to the paired side aisle windows. Roll-moulded architraves, buttresses and a string course incorporating hoodmoulds define the clerestory windows.

The east elevation, the main entrance front, has four bays with a side aisle and a stair tower to the north. Steps lead to paired, pointed arched doorways in the central bays, with boarded doors and wrought iron fleur-de-lys hinges. Elaborate doorpieces feature engaged columns, foliate carving, and quatrefoil roundels, with smaller arched windows above and a large, pointed arched chancel window in the gable. A single pointed arched side aisle window is set to the outer left, while a two-stage stair tower stands to the outer right, featuring pointed arched and circular windows.

The north and south elevations each have five bays with transepts to the west and the church hall to the north. Paired pointed arched side aisle windows are present, along with clerestory windows above. The transepts have paired windows and a large, three-light pointed arched window above.

The church hall's east elevation has a gabled doorway connecting it to the church, with a pointed arched doorway, boarded door, and a quatrefoil roundel in the gablehead. Tripartite pointed arched windows flank a central buttress, and a smaller pointed arched window sits in the gable.

Windows throughout are primarily leaded or small-paned. The roofs are grey slate with lead flashings and block skewputts.

The interior was remodelled around 1956, although some original features remain, including a particularly fine braced open roof and pointed-arched nave arcades. The organ, dating from 1892, has been moved but remains intact, as does a collection of stained glass from 1927-1928. Simple boarded pews are in place, along with a gallery to the east, chancel furniture, and a velvet reredos, all introduced in 1956. The church hall has an open braced roof on a smaller scale.

The church is enclosed by low coped boundary walls with plain gate piers. A free-standing Celtic cross war memorial, commemorating those lost in the Great War, stands to the northeast of the building.