Manse, St Thomas' Church, 9 Mill Lane, Leith, Edinburgh

John Henderson, 1840-3. Rectangular-plan 5-bay preaching-box with central E tower and Romanesque details, 2-storey 3-bay manse with Jacobean details to W forming courtyard with former hospital (listed separately). Cream sandstone, ashlar with polished and droved dressings. Cill course; eaves cornice; tall ashlar parapet; coped skews; tall round-arched bipartite windows with heavy quasi-stylised mullions and roundels to spandrels.

E (SHERIFF BRAE) ELEVATION: 3-bay; round-arched doorway to centre in shallow projection, 3 orders of chevron and zig-zag carving, 2 nook- shafts with carved cushion capitals, hoodmould with masque stops, 2-leaf door with blind tracery; tall window above in base of tower; windows flanking to outer bays. Tower rising through apex of gable with angle buttresses and louvred windows to each face, corbel table above, tall octagonal ashlar spire with 2 corbel tables and clock faces at foot framed by octagonal pinnacles with sawtooth facetted caps.

S (MILL LANE) ELEVATION: 5-bay, tall windows to each bay; small round-arched bipartite secondary doorway (now partly blocked) to outer left with cill course stepping over as hoodmould; small opening to outer right.

W ELEVATION: gabled; shallow rectangular projection to centre with lean-to ashlar roof and framed by buttresses; round-arched bipartite window; oculus to gablehead.

N (REAR) ELEVATION: 5-bay; tall windows mostly blocked by addition of brick-built shallow roofed hall built in re-entrant angle with manse.

MANSE: set at right angle to W elevation forming courtyard with former hospital and asylum similarly detailed (see Notes); 3-bay; doorway to centre and regular fenestration, at ground floor bipartite windows to left with timber mullion, window to right altered as French doors; continuous hoodmoulds to ground and 1st floor; eaves line raised over each bay into lugged gable with blind roundel. Coursed rubble to rear

with earlier pediments with carved datestones inset into E gable.

Modern glazing to church; manse with 6- or 16-pane timber sash and case windows. Slate roof; manse with shafted gablehead stacks to E and W elevation.

INTERIOR: church now subdivided horizontally and interior mainly lost; rib-vaulted vestibule with chevron carving and commemorative cartouche inscribed 'St Thomas Church and the adjoining schools were built and endowed AD 1840 by Sir John Gladstone of Fasque a native of Leith'.

RAILINGS: arrowhead railings to manse courtyard and to E front of church (restored 1980s).