Queensferry Parish Church, The Loan, South Queensferry is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 21 March 2001. Church. 5 related planning applications.
Queensferry Parish Church, The Loan, South Queensferry
- WRENN ID
- watchful-rubblework-peregrine
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 21 March 2001
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Queensferry Parish Church, The Loan, South Queensferry, EH30 9NT
- OS grid reference
- NT 129 781
- Coordinates
- 55.9884, -3.3969
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Queensferry Parish Church, built between 1893 and 1894 with a later extension, is constructed from square and snecked sandstone ashlar. The church features an aisle-less nave and has a tower and spire located at the northeast corner.
The west elevation, which is the principal façade, includes a central entrance with paired 3-centre arch doors, hoodmoulds above, and a cusped bracket in between. Above the doors is a large pointed arch with tracery and another hoodmould. The façade is supported by angle buttresses and topped with a stone cross at the apex of the gable. To the right, there is a single-storey range with a single window featuring geometric tracery and a hoodmould above, along with a diagonal buttress. The tower to the left has a bipartite light with a hoodmould, a round window above it with another hoodmould, and a blocked single light. The tower is square with a polygonal stone spire and a weathervane at the apex, along with a diagonal buttress and a similar arrangement on the left return.
The south elevation features a modern extension that was dedicated on 31st January 1993. The east elevation includes a rose window and a single-storey, 3-bay range extension with a central door flanked by windows, plus two additional windows on the returns. The north elevation has four arched lights.
Inside, the church has a pointed arched ceiling supported by timber scissor beams. The north wall contains four stained glass windows, with the third from the left serving as a War Memorial Window. The interior also features a timber communion table, pulpit, and lectern that were salvaged from the Old Parish Church. There are two doors on the east wall that lead to the church office; these originally led to the vestry and Session Room. Enclosed seating in the centre of the west wall was initially for the Stewart-Clarke family but later became seats for Burgh Council members, with the town's coat of arms displayed on the wall. An organ loft is situated above the Burgh Council seats, and a door on the south wall leads into the new extension.
Local climate
Queensferry Parish Church, The Loan, South Queensferry receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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