Church, 13 Bangor Road, Leith, Edinburgh is a Grade C listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 29 March 1995. Hall.

Church, 13 Bangor Road, Leith, Edinburgh

WRENN ID
haunted-wattle-vetch
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
City of Edinburgh
Constituency
Edinburgh North and Leith MP: Tracy Gilbert (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
29 March 1995
Type
Hall
OS grid reference
NT 266 762
Coordinates
55.97318, -3.17736
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

This building is a church located at 13 Bangor Road in Leith, Edinburgh, designed by John Hamilton and completed in 1910. It is a two-storey, three-bay rectangular hall featuring an ashlar facade with free Renaissance details. The structure is primarily made of red brick with concrete lintels and a red sandstone front, showcasing stugged ashlar with polished dressings. Notable architectural elements include a base course, a corbel course, a frieze, and a cornice above the ground floor, which is slightly advanced. The facade also features ashlar mullions and transoms, moulded skews, and overhanging eaves with exposed rafters.

On the northwest (front) elevation, there is an architraved doorway at the center, which has a metal shutter. The doorway is flanked by jambs with shallow pilasters that have stylised Ionic capitals and a keystone. Commemorative panels are located on either side of the doorway. Bipartite windows with transoms are situated on either side of the entrance. Above the ground floor, the frieze is advanced at the center bay over corbels and larger brackets, featuring Art Nouveau-style lettering that reads "The Salvation Army." The first floor has a central bay with a stepped gable and a semi-circular apex, which is adorned with a large segmental-arched transomed tripartite window that has a shouldered architrave and keystone. A datestone is positioned at the gablehead, while the outer bays have slightly advanced panels with small lugged pediments and single windows that feature bracketted swept cornices.

The southwest elevation consists of eight bays, with the two easternmost bays being slightly lower. This elevation includes two secondary doorways with metal shutters and tripartite windows at the ground floor, with the outer right being bipartite. The first floor features bipartite windows with timber mullions set in slightly recessed panels, while the three easternmost bays have single windows.

The windows throughout the building are small-pane fixed or hopper timber windows. The roof is covered with slate and has a metal ridge, along with a small apex stack located to the southeast. The interior was not seen during the last inspection in 1993.

Local climate

Church, 13 Bangor Road, Leith, 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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