St Ninian's And St Triduana Rc Church, 230 Marionville Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 14 December 1970. Church. 1 related planning application.

St Ninian's And St Triduana Rc Church, 230 Marionville Road, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
white-groin-moss
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
14 December 1970
Type
Church
Address
St Ninian's And St Triduana Rc Church, 230 Marionville Road, Edinburgh, EH7 6BE
OS grid reference
NT 280 745
Coordinates
55.95876, -3.15476
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Ninian's and St Triduana Roman Catholic Church, built in 1933 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, showcases a Modern Scottish Gothic style. The church features a nave with blind aisles and side chapels at the center. The exterior is constructed from snecked Craigmillar rubble with Darney and Blaxter dressings, and there is a brick and timber extension to the east.

On the western side, the main body of the church includes a nave without a clerestorey, and the blind aisles extend westward beyond the nave gable, forming porches. The transept is designed as side chapels with paired three-light cusped windows, while the porches have plain bipartite windows. A prominent west window features six lancets with intersecting tracery and a thick center mullion.

To the east, the nave decreases in height and has three-light windows with splayed reveals on the north and south sides. The church continues eastward with a brick and timber construction, topped with a double pitch roof that has a cat-slide. The nave has a double pitch roof, while the chapels and aisles have single pitched roofs, all adorned with crowsteps and covered in grey/green slate.

Inside, the aisles are arcaded with segmental pointed arches that spring from stone piers with rounded ashlar half-column dressings. The roof is made of oak, and the walls are plastered.

The church is surrounded by rubble stone boundary walls to the north, east, and west, with wrought-iron gates located to the north.

Local climate

St Ninian's And St Triduana Rc Church, 230 Marionville Road, Edinburgh sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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