Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 22 June 1965. Church.
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Queensferry Road, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- solitary-chancel-mallow
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Constituency
- Edinburgh West MP: Christine Jardine (LD)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1965
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NT 242 740
- Coordinates
- 55.95353, -3.21547
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, located on Queensferry Road in Edinburgh, was designed by John Henderson and built between 1837 and 1838, with a later sanctuary added in 1900 by John Robertson. In 1957, the church was converted into an electricity substation. This Neo-perpendicular Gothic church features a rectangular plan and is prominently situated at the northern end of the Dean Bridge.
The structure has a three-stage pinnacled lancet tower and consists of five bays with an arcaded basement on the south side. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar and includes an advanced banded base course and a moulded cill course. The moulded eaves course is topped by a blank parapet. Each bay is supported by stepped buttresses that are set back at the corners, extending above the parapet as triangular finials over a moulded cornice, which is adorned with a thistle motif.
Tall pointed arched windows with recessed chamfered surrounds are present in each bay, featuring hoodmoulds and timber tracery. There is a later addition on the right (west) side, which has a lower wallhead and a small central gable. A painted clock face is located on the east side beneath paired lancet windows on the third stage of the tower. The church also contains notable stained-glass windows by James Ballantine, dating from around the 1860s, and by Henry Holiday, from around 1900.
Local climate
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Queensferry Road, 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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