St John's Church And Parish School, 9 Victoria Street, Edinburgh

St John's Church and Parish School, located at 9 Victoria Street in Edinburgh, is a former church built between 1838 and 1840 by George Smith. It features a three-bay Jacobean design and is now used as a public house and shops. The exterior is constructed from stugged cream ashlar with polished dressings, while the sides and rear are made of rubble. The building has a base course, long and short quoins, and windows with chamfered mullions and transoms.

The centre bay is slightly advanced and has a pitch roof with a shaped gable, obelisks on kneelered skewputts, and an engaged octagonal apex finial. The main entrance has a modern glazed door set within a round-arched hoodmoulded surround, featuring carved headstops and roll-moulded reveals. Above the entrance, there is a projecting consoled quadripartite window at the first floor, adorned with a decorative consoled cornice, and a tripartite window at the third floor with strapwork above the cornice. The flanking bays have piend roofs, an eaves cornice, and a parapet with obelisks at the outer corners. Strapwork scrolls connect the outer bays to the taller inner block. The ground floor has timber panelled doors in corniced surrounds, which were formerly windows with strapwork decoration above. The first floor features consoled windows with lugged architraves.

Inside, there is a double-return stair with cast-iron balusters in the entrance hall. The gallery level has been floored over, but the cast-iron columns supporting the horseshoe gallery remain in place. The roof features a kingpost design with decorative circular ventilators. The building is topped with grey slates and has paired corniced chimney stalks at the rear of the centre block.