8 Grassmarket, Edinburgh

This building, located at 6 Grassmarket, Edinburgh, is a mixed-use structure built in 1884 by Hardy and Wight, comprising a Gothic church building and an adjoining Baronial tenement block. The church is a two-storey, rectangular, four-bay building set within an irregular terrace. A projecting porch and a corner turret are located to the left. The attached three-bay, four-storey tenement block is advanced to the street line, featuring shops on the ground floor, and is distinguished by a conically-roofed bartizan on the right.

The building is constructed of squared and snecked bull-faced grey sandstone with polished dressings. A moulded band runs between the ground and first floors.

The south elevation of the church features a pitch-roofed projecting porch with a buttress to the left, its west-facing return lit by a small, cusped lancet window. A two-leaf, timber-boarded door is set within a hoodmoulded, pointed-arch surround with carved label stops and the initials “WR” in a carved panel above. A single window is located to the left of the porch, and a stone-mullioned bipartite window is in the centre. Above this is a carved inscription panel within a decorative tripartite frame, surmounted by a three-light window with plate tracery in a hoodmoulded, stone-mullioned and transomed surround, featuring leaded panes above and later glazing below. A corner turret to the left rises above angle buttresses, topped with a stone-ribbed spire and pierced trefoil openings.

The west elevation has four hoodmoulded lancets with carved label stops and stepped buttresses. The lower level is rendered.

The north (rear) elevation includes a circular window in the church's gable wall, a wall stack to the left, and a piend-roofed projection to the northeast.

The interior of the church has been radically altered.

The advanced bay of the tenement block to the right features a finialled crowstepped gable. It has a shop window on the right and a timber-panelled door on the left at ground floor level. Stone-mullioned bipartite windows are positioned at the first, second, and third floors. Corbelled bands are present between the first and second, and second and third floors. Initials appear in a decorative panel above the third-floor window. To the left, a two-bay section has a shop window to the left and a two-leaf timber-panelled door in the centre. A barred metal gate provides access to a pend, set within a round-arched, roll-moulded surround with colonnettes above chamfered corners. Stone-mullioned bipartite windows are present to the left, and single windows to the right at the first, second, and third floors. Finialled gabled dormerheads break the eaves, with crowstepped detailing to the left and a segmental-headed design to the right, featuring initials in the gables. A two-stage bartizan is corbelled out to the outer left, topped with a decorative wrought-iron finial and a fish-scale-slated roof.

Replacement windows are present on the ground floor of the church building. Eight-pane glazing is found in the timber sash and case windows of the tenement. The roof is covered in grey slates, with stone skews. Rendered end stacks, corbelled out to the centre of the tenement, are topped with octagonal cans. A terracotta ridge is visible on the church roof.