Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 4 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 12 December 1974. Church.
Roxburgh Place Hall, University Of Edinburgh, 4 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- outer-rubble-ivy
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1974
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Church halls, Thomas Ross, 1909 and adjoining church, Peter MacGregor Chalmers, 1913. 9-bay Scots Gothic aisled former church and buttressed halls with square-plan unfinished tower to NW and distinctive oriel-windowed decorative entrance bay to W (Roxburgh Place). Coursed, tooled rubble with ashlar margins. Base course, cill course, cornice, parapet to church. Hoodmoulding. 3-light simple tracery windows to church at W, single-light clerestory windows to E.
FURTHER DESCRIPTION: to W: off-centre, crow-stepped entrance bay with decorative, double, round-arched entrance with clustered colonettes with decorative capitals. Pair of 2-leaf boarded timber doors with decorative cast iron hinges and multi-pane semi-circular fanlights above. 3-light oriel window above.
Predominantly Gothic and round-arched simple tracery and lancet windows with multi-pane leaded windows. Green graded slates. Cast iron rainwater goods with decorative hoppers.
INTERIOR: (seen 2007). Fine, ashlar and rubble interior to church. Entrance hall with stone balustraded staircase. Boarded, ribbed timber barrel vaulted ceiling with carved bosses. 5-bay round-arched arcades with mostly octagonal piers with decorative carved capitals. Round-arched chancel arch with carved corbels. Some stained glass to apse. Timber-fronted straight gallery to rear.
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