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
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 10 April 1986
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Robert Morham. Dated 1871. Unusual, freestyle, double-gabled church with diminutive 4-stage square-plan belfry tower. Coursed, rock-face ashlar with stugged dressings. Narrow entrance bay to left with recessed timber door with pointed gablehead with lettering 'BLACKFRIARS STREET 1871'. Small windows at upper storeys rising to 2-stage belfry with nook shafts to angles and louvred openings. Pair of tall and narrow identical gabled bays to right, each with pointed-arch double-leaf timber doors with moulded architraves. Tall, bipartite lancet windows above with small rose window to centre. Paired gable configuration mirrored at rear elevation with further, smaller bay to right.
Steeply pitched roof with continous glazed rooflights to ridge. Predominently multi-pane glazing to timber astragalled fixed-pane windows. Broad end stack to S gable. Clay cans. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
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