17, 19, 21 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 10 April 1986. Church. 5 related planning applications.
17, 19, 21 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- winding-niche-lichen
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh MP: Chris Murray (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- 17, 19, 21 Blackfriars Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1NB
- OS grid reference
- NT 260 736
- Coordinates
- 55.94996, -3.18574
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
17, 19, 21 Blackfriars Street in Edinburgh is a church designed by Robert Morham and dated 1871. It features an unusual, freestyle design with double gables and a small, four-stage square belfry tower. The exterior is constructed from coursed, rock-faced ashlar with stugged dressings.
On the left side, there is a narrow entrance bay that includes a recessed timber door topped with a pointed gablehead, which has the inscription 'BLACKFRIARS STREET 1871'. Above this entrance, small windows are positioned at the upper storeys, leading up to the two-stage belfry that has nook shafts at the corners and louvred openings. To the right, there are two tall and narrow identical gabled bays, each featuring pointed-arch double-leaf timber doors with moulded architraves. Above these doors, tall bipartite lancet windows are present, with a small rose window in the center.
The church has a steeply pitched roof that includes continuous glazed rooflights along the ridge. The predominant glazing consists of multi-pane timber astragalled fixed-pane windows. The south gable has a broad end stack, and there are clay cans and cast-iron rainwater goods. The rear elevation mirrors the paired gable configuration, with an additional smaller bay on the right.
Local climate
17, 19, 21 Blackfriars Street, 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
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