St Stephen's Free Church And Hall, Comely Bank Road, Edinburgh

St Stephen's Free Church and Hall, located on Comely Bank Road in Edinburgh, was designed by JN Scott and A Lorne Campbell in 1901. This Gothic-style church features a pitch-roofed nave, lower pitch-roofed transepts, and flat-roofed aisles. The adjoining hall complex has a piend roof and gothic windows at the rear. The building is constructed from squared and snecked bull-faced red sandstone with polished dressings, and it includes chamfered openings and angle buttresses.

On the south elevation, there are steps leading to two timber-panelled doors with decorative iron hinges, set in pointed-arched openings within a segmental-arched frame, flanked by small rectangular windows. Above these doors is a large six-light Tudor-arched window, and the gable is adorned with decorative finials.

The east and west elevations feature tall two-light windows that illuminate the aisles, along with smaller three-light clerestorey windows for the nave and two three-light windows in the transepts. There is a flat-roofed porch on the west side with a two-leaf timber boarded door in a Tudor-arched surround. A polygonal stair tower on the southeast has small rectangular windows.

Inside, the church boasts a compartmented hammerbeam roof and Tudor arches in the aisles. A timber gallery is situated at the rear, with fixed pews below. The curved reredos and dado panelling are located behind the Elders' seating and a recessed organ. The Gothic communion table and font are notable features, and the organ, built by JJ Binns of Leeds in 1902, adds to the interior's character. Stained glass includes a three-light window in the west transept, which serves as a war memorial, created by R Douglas McLundie of the Abbey Studio, and a three-light window in the east transept by George Garson from Edinburgh College of Art, completed in 1968.

The hall complex features a two-leaf timber boarded door in a pointed-arched surround, flanked by two-light gothic windows, and has a swept-roofed ventilator on the roof. The church windows display perpendicular tracery and leaded glass, while the hall complex windows have six-pane glazing with top hoppers. A decorative cast-iron downpipe with a hopper serves the hall, and the building is finished with stone skews and grey slates.